Soft power

Soft power
Start	1990
Founder(s)	Joseph Nye
Interest of	Ryan Gawn

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Social control
Social engineering	The calculated influencing of society on a large scale, often over a long term.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"Continuity of Government"	“It's important that the UN and WHO remain very clear, but when they challenge governments directly, they often get into this issue of sovereignty. (...) I think it's really critical to think about soft power influence, which is other influentials, who can call up the head of state, or powerful constituencies within those countries. We've seen this in the context of mobilizing religious leaders in the context of polio, or specific business leaders where you can soften perhaps a very hard line from government through less more stealthy entry points, rather than trying to punish them (...)”		18 October 2019
Brussels Forum/2014	“The ultimate soft power instrument in the world is the Brussels Forum”	Carl Bildt	2014
Ditchley	“Ditchley is one of the hidden gems of the Transatlantic relationship... its role as a clearing house for ideas; a forum for debate and discussion; and a magnet for policymakers gives it a unique status. It is the intellectual expression of 'soft power' and a tribute to the pre-eminence of reason and rational debate."”	John Major
Event 201	“It's important that the UN and WHO remain very clear, but when they challenge governments directly, they often get into this issue of sovereignty. And so I think it's really important not to have that as the only response. I think it's really critical to think about soft power influence, which is other influentials, who can call up the head of state, or powerful constituencies within those countries. We've seen this in the context of mobilizing religious leaders in the context of polio, or specific business leaders where you can soften perhaps a very hard line from government through less more stealthy entry points, rather than trying to punish them through the International Health Regulations or something like that.”		18 October 2019
Anthony Fauci	“I feel confident that over a period of time we will get a good vaccine, that we will never have to get back to where we are right now.”	Anthony Fauci	8 April 2020
Social control	“How Do You Get Manipulated? Manipulative relationships depend on activating one (or both) of two principal human drives: gain (or reward) and loss (or avoidance). These are the two engines that drive the manipulation. Do not bother looking for anything more complicated than this: Manipulation always boils down to the promise of a net gain and/or the threat of a net loss.”	Harriet Braiker	2003

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The new mind control	article	March 2016	Robert Epstein	The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do
File:MindWar.pdf	paper	1980	Paul E. Vallely Michael A. Aquino

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