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

The Trump administration has proposed shuttering USAID and cutting some of the State Department’s critical diplomatic programs; it has also announced tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China.

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 ...

"The strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must." So wrote Thucydides in the "History of the Peloponnesian War," and the Greek historian's cold-eyed observation still holds. But in today ...

Nye, who coined the term “soft power”, has died at the age of 88. Here in full is his upcoming article from Monocle’s June issue. Joseph S Nye, who popularised the term “soft power”, on what it means ...

Earlier this month the United Kingdom government launched an inquiry into the country’s soft power – that is, its tools of attraction and cultural influence. Soft power is an elusive form of influence ...

Matthew Clary is affiliated with the American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Studies Association (ISA), the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA), the College Board, ...