President Donald Trump has never been a fan of soft power. He much prefers the hard stuff: tough diplomacy, throwing around the weight of American might. In keeping with this ethos, Trump has made ...

President Donald Trump’s recent actions on foreign policy—from his efforts to gut a key international aid organization to his threats to impose tariffs on critical allies, to the allocation of power ...

Joseph Nye, a former dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, is a political scientist and author of “A Life in the American Century.” President Donald Trump does not understand soft power or its role in ...

Hard power uses material assets to compel and coerce others to bow to your will. War is not necessarily required; threats backed by economic and military assets may suffice to change how others behave ...

Amid GPT-4o's launch and the emergence of new tech policies worldwide, artificial intelligence (AI) is now at the center of today's public discourse. Foreign policy is not immune to this trend, with ...

For the past few years, I have been researching, writing and reimagining soft power as a core leadership skill for our new reality. Earlier this month, I took the Amtrak from New York City to Boston ...

The global landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, a tectonic shift in the balance of influence. The sixth annual Global Soft Power Index, released by Brand Finance, confirms what many have ...

He coined the term, arguing that a country’s global influence can’t be built on military might alone. Diplomats around the world paid heed. By Trip Gabriel Joseph S. Nye Jr., an influential figure in ...