Definitions for soft power
soft pow·er

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1. soft powernoun

   Political influence that is extended by means of diplomacy, international assistance, cultural exchanges, etc., rather than by such "hard" means as military intervention or punitive economic measures.

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1. Soft power

   Soft power is a concept developed by Joseph Nye of Harvard University to describe the ability to attract and co-opt rather than coerce, use force or give money as a means of persuasion. Nye coined the term in a 1990 book, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power. He further developed the concept in his 2004 book, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. The term is now widely used in international affairs by analysts and statesmen. For example, in 2007, CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao told the 17th Communist Party Congress that China needed to increase its soft power, and the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke of the need to enhance American soft power by "a dramatic increase in spending on the civilian instruments of national security – diplomacy, strategic communications, foreign assistance, civic action and economic reconstruction and development." According to the IfG-Monocle Soft Power Index the United Kingdom currently holds the top spot in soft power thanks to a combination of international perception, global reach of British media, inventions like the world wide web and the Internet, architecture, international diplomacy, students seeking to study in the UK, cultural missions and the number of highly publicized international events held there.

How to pronounce soft power?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of soft power in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of soft power in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of soft power in a Sentence

1. 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.

2. Jonathan Friedman:

   There isn't much bandwidth for planning how to use the G20 presidency to achieve clear goals, turkey's soft power has declined so rapidly over the last two years. Turkey doesn't have the same credibility on the G20 stage as it would have had a couple of years back.

3. United States:

   The Chinese are very good at taking advantage of opportunities, which they may have been able to do in the recent past with our focus on the Middle East for the first part of the 2000s and following that the financial crisis, we have to get back to doing what we do well. Our soft power is incredibly more powerful than their soft power. They don't really have that same kind of attractiveness that the United States system has, and I think that's because our partners around the world know we stand by them and know we won't impose our will on them, that we'll work together with them.

4. Michael Shoebridge:

   For all the years of engagement with Australia, Beijing doesn't understand the place or the people, bullying Australians achieves the opposite of acquiescence and subservience. And Beijing's coercion of Australia, now using our trade as a weapon, is helping collapse hard-won soft power gains Beijing had made here and internationally in the last 20 years.

5. Rana Mitter:

   The ability of a figure like Jack Ma to speak out will be harder, and I think this will actually create a further problem for China's desire to generate soft power, nobody really takes seriously figures from any country who go around the world simply spouting the government line.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Soft_Power
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=soft power