soft power

October 13, 2014

The most prominent strategy for how to counter an insurgency is “to win hearts and minds.  Once the battle for popular opinion is won, they will provide the government with the information it needs to effectively prosecute these wars and the insurgency, starved of support, will wither away.

Chinese Soldiers in Beijing

CPD Blogger Fahim Masoud on what China must do to maximize its power.

Fearing contagion, Jordan has announced that it will not tolerate any open activity, recruitment or support for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.

The recent Mars orbit caps an impressive track record for the country’s space agency.

The Palace of Arts in Budapest on Friday was home to a photo show and the presentation of an album combining the beauties of China and Hungary, as well as a ceremony re-introducing a volume of classic Chinese poetry published in Hungary.

An edited transcript of the CPD-BBC Forum held at USC, asking the hard questions about soft power.

An edited transcript of the CPD-BBC Forum held at USC, asking the hard questions about soft power.

October 10, 2014

In Pop Power: Pop Diplomacy for a Global Society, Luis Antonio Vidal Pérez explores pop culture as a tool for constructing a global society in the context of International Relations by studying the cases of South Korea and Japan’s pop diplomacy in Peru.

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