Definitions for hard power
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1. Hard power

   In politics, hard power is the use of military and economic means to influence the behavior or interests of other political bodies. This form of political power is often aggressive (coercion), and is most immediately effective when imposed by one political body upon another of lesser military and/or economic power. Hard power contrasts with soft power, which comes from diplomacy, culture and history.According to Joseph Nye, hard power involves "the ability to use the carrots and sticks of economic and military might to make others follow your will". Here, "carrots" stand for inducements such as the reduction of trade barriers, the offer of an alliance or the promise of military protection. On the other hand, "sticks" represent threats - including the use of coercive diplomacy, the threat of military intervention, or the implementation of economic sanctions. Ernest Wilson describes hard power as the capacity to coerce "another to act in ways in which that entity would not have acted otherwise".

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1. Hard power

   Hard power is the use of military and economic means to influence the behavior or interests of other political bodies. This form of political power is often aggressive, and is most effective when imposed by one political body upon another of lesser military and/or economic power. Hard power contrasts with soft power, which comes from diplomacy, culture and history. According to Joseph Nye, the term is “the ability to use the carrots and sticks of economic and military might to make others follow your will.” Here, “carrots” are inducements such as the reduction of trade barriers, the offer of an alliance or the promise of military protection. On the other hand, “sticks” are threats including the use of coercive diplomacy, the threat of military intervention, or the implementation of economic sanctions. Ernest Wilson describes it as the capacity to coerce “another to act in ways in which that entity would not have acted otherwise.”

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hard power in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hard power in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of hard power in a Sentence

1. Nicholas Dungan:

   You don't need political power to be a leader. You don't need hard power to be a leader. You need personal power to be a leader, the Queen gift may be the inspiration that The Queen gives us for the future as much as the service The Queen gave us during The Queen lifetime.

2. Mike Gallagher:

   When the dust settles, despite the very real bravery on display by the Ukrainian people, deterrence in this case failed. The Biden Administration thought that sanctions and tweets would be enough to deter, but they failed to apply the kind of hard power that would have deterred Putin from launching this war in the first place. By the way, a war that could still escalate and involve us at any moment.

3. Nile Gardiner:

   I think Biden simply doesn't believe in a powerful projection of American might and power. Biden is a quintessentially European Union-style politician who believes in endless negotiations and multilateral solutions... He's not someone who believes in the protection of hard power, and that's a fatal mistake to make when you are confronting both Beijing and Moscow because it just sends a message of weakness rather than strength.

4. Mike Gallagher:

   And I think it should serve as a reminder that authoritarian countries with leaders who have no checks and balances like Russia and China and leaders who think human life is cheap can launch invasions that seem impossible for us to imagine, if the Biden Administration is wedded to this approach that they are calling integrated deterrence, which is just liberal code for cutting hard power, I fear deterrence will fail again in a bigger stage which is the conflict over Taiwan.

5. Jonathan Pryke:

   The Australian government has clearly acknowledged that there can't be any room for vacuum creation,( be it) the hard power, soft power, the aid front, or the medical front, they can't step back from any vacuum for fear that China might fill it.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Power
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hard power