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Posts Tagged ‘soft power’

  • The Second Coming of Jimmy Carter?

    Posted January 29th, 2010 at 3:46pm in American Leadership, Protect America 7

    Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Walter Russell Mead writes at Foreign Policy: Neither a cold-blooded realist nor a bleeding-heart idealist, Barack Obama has a split personality when it comes to foreign policy. So do most U.S. presidents, of course, and the ideas that inspire this one have a long history at the core of the [...] More

  • Dumb Power

    Posted February 10th, 2009 at 11:50am in American Leadership 4

    In the world of international affairs, popular phrases usually signify not thought, but its absence. Calls for ‘a new Marshall Plan,’ for example, are invariably made by people who know absolutely nothing about the original one. The appearance of these phrases is the surest proof that the speaker is content to think in [...] More