Interview: Winning the Great Power Competition with Soft Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h1qDOYLRtQ Dan Runde, Senior Vice President and Director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), delves deeper into the details of his book "The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power" with the World Affairs Council of Atlanta.   Runde approaches the essential questions of what soft power is and how to measure …

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Why Has the West Given Up on Aid?

If there was a time to be excited about economic development, it was the mid-2000s. Reasons for optimism were many, and compelling. There was the 2005 Gleneagles Summit that set an explicit target for international development assistance by G8 nations (0.7 percent of national income); celebrity campaigns by Bono and Bob Geldof to cancel the …

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Is upping ‘soft power’ deployment the key to U.S. global leadership?

In a piece he authored in January for the Deseret News, Daniel Runde cites “soft power” as a term coined by political scientist Joseph Nye Jr. that describes power wielded by persuasion, not force. On Thursday, Runde, the senior vice president, and William A. Schreyer, chair in global analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies …

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Interview: Cover to Cover

Our January 2023 Cover to Cover featured author Daniel Runde as he speaks about his newly published book: The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power. The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power is the first book in decades to look at our non-military power through the lens of great-power competition. It …

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Book Review: ‘American Imperative’ Applies Yesterday’s Solutions to the World Crises of Today

American foreign policy has always been a popular topic of discussion in Washington. Those who are part of the so-called foreign policy "establishment" have almost always been criticized by those who are not in the "establishment" for failing to address emerging and ongoing issues in a thoughtful and meaningful way. Establishment-types care instead, claim their …

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KOA Interview: Dan Runde New Book on Global Consensus ‘The American Imperative’

Runde makes the case for building a new global consensus through vigorous internationalism and judicious use of soft power. He maps out many of the steps that we need to take––primarily in the non-military sphere––to ensure an alliance of stable and secure, like-minded, self-reliant partner nations in order to prevent rising authoritarian powers such as …

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Book Review: “How America Wins”

James Jay Carafano's review of The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power, a book by Daniel F. Runde. Originally posted on 1945 on January 5, 2023. If the differences in American foreign policy were two grim, heavily armored hordes entrenched on opposite sides of a shelled and bloody battlefield, then the pages of The American Imperative: …

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