Center for Strategic Communication

A Misunderstanding of Smart Power

Al Jazeera uses highlights sports diplomacy with Latin and South America to discuss U.S. policy towards Syria. Yesterday, Al Jazeera English aired a segment discussing the use of “smart power” in the Middle East. Smart power is the combined application of hard and...

Still a Need for Hard Power

This past week, Bruce Stokes and Richard Wike of the Pew Research Center wrote an op-ed for CNN discussing the results of Pew’s recent polling of America’s stature in certain parts of the world. Their title, “World to America: We want soft, not hard power” draws...