hard power is the use of military and economic means to influence the behavior or interests of other political bodies. This form of political power is...

significantly broader than a state's immediate area). Even states with sizable hard power assets (such as a large standing army) may only be able to exert limited...

particularly in international politics), soft power is the ability to co-opt rather than coerce (in contrast with hard power). It involves shaping the preferences...

for power that is perceived as legitimate or socially approved by the social structure. Scholars have distinguished between soft power and hard power. In...

In international relations, the term smart power refers to the combination of hard power and soft power strategies. It is defined by the Center for Strategic...

power is defined in several different ways. Material definitions of state power emphasize economic and military power. Other definitions of power emphasize...

extending of power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic...

the world. While soft power as a concept can be summarized as "get others to do your bidding" without resorting to hard power, it has been argued that...

body upon another of lesser military and/or economic power. Hard power contrasts with soft power, which comes from diplomacy, culture and history. Many...

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storage, retaining stored data when powered off. Modern HDDs are typically in the form of a small rectangular box. Hard disk drives were introduced by IBM...

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Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America) is a 2007 American action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman, and serves as the...

Rock Hard Power Spray was a Danish rock band from Odense, that was founded in 2004 and consisted of Frederik Valentin, Mattias Hundebøll, Ask Fogh, and...

respectively) rather than their strategic and hard power capabilities (i.e., the lack of permanent seats and veto power on the UN Security Council or strategic...

June Teufel Dreyer, "[a] superpower must be able to project its power, soft and hard, globally". In his book Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role...

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politics, the terms are respectively analogous to the concepts of soft and hard power. A political example of a carrot may be the promise of foreign aid or...

Unilateralism as first course of action can be viewed as an act of aggression or hard power, unilateral sanctions violate the United Nations Charter and inhibit development...

power theory, states, motivated primarily by their desire for survival and security, will develop and implement military capabilities and hard power mechanisms...

the concepts of hard power and soft power, hard power relating primarily to coercive power, such as the use of force, and soft power commonly covering...

methodology is considered outdated, however, as he only takes into account "hard" power factors and indicators such as steel production no longer have the same...

Japan was no longer able to employ hard power through its military. As a result, it cultivated and pioneered soft power as its approach to its position on...

thought, viewed war as an act of statecraft and gave strong emphasis on hard power. Clausewitz felt that armed conflict was inherently one-sided, where typically...

guitarists began experimenting with hard rock elements such as driving rhythms, distorted guitar solos and power chords in the 1950s, evident in the work...

all about power, be it military or diplomatic. When a state does not have the sources to defend itself, it means that it lacks hard power, for example...

A disk enclosure is a specialized casing designed to hold and power hard disk drives or solid state drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to...

national power assessment. It builds upon concepts such as superpower and regional power, as well as soft power, hard power and smart power. A 1995 definition...

connectors for power supply cords to electrical appliances Molex connector, four-pin hard disk drive (HDD) connectors, also used for powering CD-ROM drives...

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