Smart Power

The Real Meaning of "Smart Power"

Brian Keane | Posted 01.09.2012

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When I picked up my copy of this week's Time magazine, I was momentarily stopped in my tracks by Massimo Calabresi's cover story: "Hillary Clinton and the Rise of Smart Power."

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Smart Power: Hollywood goes to the West Bank

Fadi Elsalameen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why would an American youth who grew up in Hollywood, worked there as an assistant director on TV shows, a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Advance...

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Compassion Across Borders

John Bridgeland | Posted 05.25.2011

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By having national policies that engage more Americans in international service at every stage of life, we will be sharing our most valuable assets to make a significant difference in communities and nations throughout the world.

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Brits Want Obama-Style Change. Can They Grasp It?

Indra Adnan | Posted 05.25.2011

With the arrival of a third party in the spotlight, there is a major chance of significant change -- not so much in the individual politician, but in the way we do politics in the United Kingdom.

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A Healthy Argument for Smart Power

Nancy Lindborg | Posted 05.25.2011

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As hyper-partisanship continues to dominate the health care debate in the nation's capital, it might be easy to overlook a bipartisan consensus that has quietly but unmistakably emerged in the foreign policy spectrum.

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Something We Can All Agree On

Richard Stearns | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nowhere is the smart power consensus more evident than on the solid, common ground where America's business and humanitarian communities find themselves today.

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A Soft Power Opportunity for Iran

Kevin Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the neighboring country of Yemen, a very real opportunity to make good on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's promise of friendship is rapidly emerging for Iran.

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Cuba's Soft Power: Exporting Doctors Rather Than Revolution

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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I would have encouraged Cuba's foreign minister to say that the embargo was an anachronism of the Cold War, has not achieved the goals the US had for it, and harmed both Cuban and US interests.

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Hillary Clinton Does 185,731 Miles and Asks If I Was a Party Crasher

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hillary is sometimes characterized as a liberal hawk, an interventionist, a person who clings a little too tightly to rhetoric of "coersive diplomacy." But last night I heard a different Secretary of State.

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Americans Want To Save Energy; We're Going To Help Them Make It Happen

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011

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We've created a website that allows me to plug in information about my home and lifestyle, along with my goal to "lose" $20 off my monthly utility bill, and then find out exactly how to make it happen.

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Joe Wilson, You're No Joe Nye

Nancy Snow | Posted 05.25.2011

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I promise you this: If I see Joe Wilson this Thanksgiving, I'll make sure not to shout out or finger point as I reach for the pecan pie.

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Zinni Calls on Obama to Release "National Strategy Report" and for US "Smart Power" Functions to be Organized in a New Military Command

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Zinni's proposals are provocative and substantive. I have asked someone at the Department of State about possibly responding. Hopefully this will happen in the near term.

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Korea's Missiles, Obama's Maneuvers and Neocons' Mad-libs

Jonathan Morgenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Obama's relations with North Korea, force is an option but a last resort. That is the hallmark of the Smart Power approach: use all the instruments of national power to achieve your goals, not just the military.

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People-to-People-Based Foreign Policy

Kenneth Wollack | Posted 05.25.2011

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We can foster connections and exchanges that can build trust, demonstrate our values, and blend people together in a web of relationships that cross borders and cultural divides.

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The Flat Thinking of Tom Friedman

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman's 'leaders not light bulbs' notion is worth challenging. Anything we can do to save energy does have true environmental value.

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Barack and Slumdog

Nathan Gardels and Mike Medavoy | Posted 05.25.2011

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If politics in the information age is about whose story wins, then, given this reality, America's storytellers -- Hollywood -- have a starring role in defining America's presence globally.

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Is Hillary Soft Enough to be Smart?

Indra Adnan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hilary could not then and cannot now afford to promote 'soft power' for fear of appearing weak. 'Smart power', given her own concerns about politics and gender, is the best she can do.

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Anybody Know What 'Smart Power' Means?

Lionel Beehner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hand it to Hillary Clinton. She's managed to sum up the bold new direction of US foreign policy into a bumper-friendly catchphrase: smart power. Sufficiently vague, the phrase is remarkable for its meaninglessness.

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Smart Power and the New Secretary of State

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Smart power in the service of the robust diplomacy Clinton intends to implement is about listening, learning what the other side truly wants and needs rather than reliance on assumptions.

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No-Plumbing Disease

John Sauer | Posted 05.25.2011

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The most practical investment we can make in global public health is plumbing. If we recognize the illnesses caused by poor plumbing, we will save millions of lives each year.

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Soft Power is Obama's Greatest Strength

Indra Adnan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Perhaps all that is needed is a good role model for soft power: someone who seeks to engage rather than stand off, capable of dialogue not just debate.

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