Hard, Soft, and Smart Power – Education as a Power Resource
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Beschreibung
This publication focuses on the power forms identified by Joseph Nye: hard, soft, and smart, and evaluates education as a resource of power. Education is a smart power resource since it has both hard and soft power characteristics. The study of Kazakhstan reveals international educational programs allow education to become a power resource.
In the current global context, there is a shift in power paradigm from the rigid realpolitik perspective towards the inclusion of multiple faces of power. This publication focuses on the power forms identified by Joseph Nye: hard, soft, and smart, and evaluates education as a resource of power. Resource ambiguity is one of the key shortcomings of soft power theory. Education is a smart power resource since it has both hard and soft power characteristics. The case study of Kazakhstan reveals that international educational programs allow education to become a power resource.
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Aigerim Raimzhanova
Themen in »Hard, Soft, and Smart Power – Education as a Power Resource«
Aigerim Conceptual weaknesses of soft power Education Education and Economic Growth Foreign Politics of Kazakhstan Hard International education in Kazakhstan Juchacz Piotr Power Raimzhanova Resource Resource of Education Smart Soft