Soft Power and US Foreign Policy: Theoretical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Soft power is the use of attraction and persuasion rather than the use of coercion or force in foreign policy. This volume features a brand new chapter by Joseph Nye outlining his views on soft, hard and smart power and offers a critique of the Bush administration's inadequacies. The other contributions to the volume respond to Nye's views from a range of theoretical, historical and policy perspectives giving new insights in to both soft power and the concept of power itself.

Author: Inderjeet Parmar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/01/2010
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780415492041

About the Author

Inderjeet Parmar is Professor of Government and Head of the Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK. He has published several monographs and is the co-editor of the Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy series.

Michael Cox

is Professor in the International Relations Department at LSE, UK. He is the author of numerous books and has edited several of the leading journals in international relations.