The Berlin Wall on the night of Nov. 9, 1989. It wasn't artillery that brought it down but the soft power of Western values. (Robert Wallis / Corbis / Getty Images) Power is the ability to get others ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joseph Nye: ‘Soft power means that others want what the United States wants. It’s not just a question of whose army wins but of ...

Earlier this month the United Kingdom government launched an inquiry into the country’s soft power – that is, its tools of attraction and cultural influence. Soft power is an elusive form of influence ...

Clockwise from top left: Moo Deng; LISA; Thais celebrate after the government approves same-sex marriage; a still from The White Lotus. Clockwise from top left: Moo Deng; LISA; Thais celebrate after ...

Nye, who coined the term “soft power”, has died at the age of 88. Here in full is his upcoming article from Monocle’s June issue. Joseph S Nye, who popularised the term “soft power”, on what it means ...

Cyber experts, policymakers, and practitioners are striving to understand how cyber capabilities have been used since the Russian invasion of Ukraine one year ago. These analyses have missed a crucial ...

In a world marked by wars in Ukraine and Gaza, is the age of soft power over? Thirty years ago, with the end of the Soviet Union, increasing integration in Europe, and America’s “Unipolar Moment,” the ...

Fashion in 2025 is no longer about dressing to dominate a room. Instead, women are choosing to dress to feel grounded, confident, and authentic. This shift has given rise to a powerful yet subtle ...

Power is the ability to get others to do what you want. That can be accomplished by coercion (“sticks”), payment (“carrots”) or attraction (“honey”). The first two methods are forms of hard power; ...