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Books
Joseph S. Nye Jr.. (Apr 2004). Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. Public Affairs Press.
Steven Poole. (Apr 2006). Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality. Grove Press.
H. Slavik, ed. (Apr 2004). Intercultural Communication and Diplomacy. Diplo Foundation.
(Mar 2016). Rising Soft Powers: Turkey. Los Angeles: USC Center on Public Diplomacy.
Journal articles
Ernest J. Wilson III. (Mar 2008). Hard Power, Soft Power, Smart Power. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 110-124.
Edward Wastnidge. (Mar 2015). The Modalities of Iranian Soft Power: From Cultural Diplomacy to Soft War. Politics. Wiley Online Library
Yulia Kiseleva. (Nov 2015). Russia's Soft Power Discourse: Identity, Status and the Attraction of Power. Politics. 316-329.
Andrew F. Cooper. (Apr 2015). Recalibrating Middle Power Diplomacy: The Changing ‘Soft Power’ Brands of Republic of Korea and Canada in Comparative Perspective. East Asia Institute.
Maud Quessard. (Apr 2020). Rebranding Soft Power: Assessing Obama’s Smart Power Strategies. Études Anglaises. 469-485.
Essays
Michael Harvey. (Nov 2011). British Power Beyond the Military: Smart On Soft Power. The World Today.
Jonathan Debilde. (Nov 2010). The European Union: From Soft Power to Smart Power? The Geopolitical and Conflict Report. The Geopolitical and Conflict Report.
Robin Brown. (Mar 2016). Hard vs. Soft Power as Metaphor. Public Diplomacy, Networks and Influence.
(May 2013). U.S. Soft Power & the Rebalance: Public Diplomacy in New Zealand and Indonesia. Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Eleanor Albert. (May 2017). China's Big Bet on Soft Power. Backgrounder. Council on Foreign Relations.
Reports
(Apr 2020). The Soft Power 30: A Global Ranking of Soft Power (2019). Portland CommunicationsPortland Communications.
Jonathan McClory. (Sep 2018). The Soft Power 30: A Global Ranking of Soft Power . Portland, Facebook, USC Center on Public DiplomacyPortland, Facebook, USC Center on Public Diplomacy.
Jane Luscomb. (Oct 2011). Putting the Power in Soft Power? Wilton Park Reports.
Jonathan McClory. (Jul 2017). The Soft Power 30. Portland, USC Center on Public DiplomacyPortland, USC Center on Public Diplomacy.
(Feb 2014). Conference Report: Soft Power in Action. Wilton ParkWilton Park.
Speeches
Jul 2008 - Soft Power in East Asia. (Brookings Institution.)
Apr 2011 - Remarks at the Faith and Diplomacy Briefing. (USC Center for Religion & Civic Culture at the Dornsife College..)
Apr 2009 - RFE/RL is Smart Power. (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty.)
Organizations
Multimedia
Oct 5, 2017 - Ambassador Tom Fletcher Speaks About Soft Power
Jun 7, 2019 - The Future of Soft Power and Public Diplomacy
Jan 11, 2018 - Monocle Releases 2017/2018 Soft Power Survey
Dec 14, 2017 - David Kang: Media Rhetoric & North Korea
CPD Blog
Building an Evaluation Approach for Evaluating Arts and Soft Power by Ian Thomas on Jan 27, 2021
The NDB: Not Just Any Emerging Bank by Amaia Sánchez-Cacicedo on Apr 14, 2015
Power in the 21st Century: The Banality of Soft Power by Ilan Manor on Oct 21, 2019
Ayurveda and Yoga are India’s Greatest Gifts to Mankind by Aparna M Sridhar on Oct 24, 2019
PD News
Turkish Soft Power: More Soft Than Powerful (Hurriyet Daily News) on May 22, 2013
Turkish Soft Power: More Soft Than Powerful (Hurriyet Daily News) on May 22, 2013
Soft Power and Hard Truths: Soft power evolution from Perry’s day to Obama’s (The Daily Yomiuri) on Nov 20, 2009
Hard Power, Soft Power, and Energy Power (Foreign Affairs) on Mar 4, 2015
Soft War vs. Soft Power (Mehr News) on Oct 14, 2015
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