Restrictive new visa and immigration policies have made the United States less accessible and less attractive to potential visitors, and Washington’s coercive and transactional dealings with U.S.

The Berlin Wall on the night of Nov. 9, 1989. It wasn't artillery that brought it down but the soft power of Western values. (Robert Wallis / Corbis / Getty Images) Power is the ability to get others ...

One astonishing phenomenon (of admittedly many) in this second presidency of Donald Trump is his voluntary transfer of America’s greatest asset to his counterpart in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin. That ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a world marked by wars in Ukraine and Gaza, is the age of soft power over? Thirty years ago, with the end of the Soviet Union, increasing integration in Europe, and America’s “Unipolar Moment,” the ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Zealand ranks pretty highly in this year's Global Soft Power Index, but we have been better in the past, and some of our key images are aging out. There has been increasing commentary about the ...

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; ...