Sunday, 23 June 2013

Soft Power, Culture and Influence


New report

The report in full, pdf, Influence and attraction, Culture and the race for soft power in the 21st century

Soft Power debate

Soft Power, Hard Concept

Update: House of Commons Committee Video, Witnesses, discussion (21 October, 2013)

Soft Power and the UK's Influence

Witnesses

Dr Rudolf Adam, Chargé d'Affaires, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany; His Excellency Mr. Keiichi Hayashi, Ambassador of Japan; His Excellency Mr. Roberto Jaguaribe, Ambassador of Brazil and His Excellency Mr Kim Traavik, Ambassador of Norway

The Committee on Soft Power and the UK's Influence

Update 23 February 2014:

Writing in The Sunday Times, Adrian Wooldridge, on the topic of Ukraine and Russia :

"Soft power does not come only in a liberal package: countries can expand their footprint by rallying the forces of cultural conservatism just as easily as by rallying the forces of cultural liberalism".

"Tanks should be constructed in the mind such tanks would really avail the human race - religion, poetry, philosophy - these things only are of use". Llewelyn Powys, letter to  T.F. Powys, June 11, 1918

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