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smart power
SMART POW-er
smɑːrt ˈpaʊərListen
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smartpower
Dictionary meaning
a strategy that combines hard power coercive tools with soft power attraction and legitimacy to achieve foreign policy objectives efficiently; term popularized by Joseph Nye and Suzanne Nossel; adopted as a framework by the Obama administration; recognizes that neither hard nor soft power alone is sufficient and that the skill lies in combining them appropriately for each context
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