“Hard power can rest on inducements (‘carrots’) or threats (‘sticks’)…soft power [means] getting others to want the outcomes that you want.” Though she stood at only 4’10”, Madeleine Albright was ...

One of the more striking features of the Trump administration’s approach to foreign policy—not the chosen ends, but its preferred means—is its absolute confidence in America’s hard power and its ...

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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; ...

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Mackenzie Eaglen, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, addresses the challenging questions of how to allocate defense spending to meet ...

Instead of unconvincingly pumping out their chests, European leaders should engage with the Trump administration in constructive diplomacy with Russia. In the event negotiations fail due to ...

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