Global power is shifting from US unipolarity to Pax Multipolaris, an unstable order driven by risk, great-power rivalry and ...

How should American power be deployed in the world? Since the Cold War, America’s role as a global leader has been up for ...

The Trump administration is acting like "dictatorial regimes do," according to the global rights monitor CIVICUS ...

American soft power recovered after low points in the Vietnam and Iraq wars, as well as from a dip in Mr. Trump’s first term. But once trust is lost, it is not easily restored.

But over the past 80 years, the United States has accumulated soft power, based on attraction rather than coercion or the imposition of costs. Wise American policy would maintain, rather than disrupt, ...

Unlike “hard power,” which can be quantified in terms of military might, soft power is more qualitative in nature. Yet, it is more likely to shift attitudes and alliances than shows of force.

CAMBRIDGE – Power is the ability to get others to do what you want. That can be accomplished by coercion (“sticks”), payment (“carrots”), and attraction (“honey”). The first two methods are forms of ...