Michael Cox & Inderjeet Parmar 
Soft Power and US Foreign Policy 
Theoretical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Soft power is the use of attraction and persuasion rather than the use of coercion or force in foreign policy.This volume features a brand new chapter by Nye outlining his views on soft, hard and smart power and offers a critique of the Bush administration’s inadequacies.The other contributions to the volume respond to Nye’s views from a range of theoretical, historical and policy perspectives giving new insights in to both soft power and the concept of power itself.