soft power – Openforum https://www.openforum.com.au Open Forum offers an independent platform for Australian debate Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:57:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 Government focuses on strategic shaping as DFAT drops soft-power review https://www.openforum.com.au/government-focuses-on-strategic-shaping-as-dfat-drops-soft-power-review/ Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:52:12 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=31905 Until the last decade, Australia was the pre-eminent international media voice in the South Pacific, but we're falling behind our allies and competitors.

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Treading softly in power diplomacy https://www.openforum.com.au/treading-softly-in-power-diplomacy/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 20:18:24 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=23519 Museums have emerged as new and effective actors of cultural soft power, including institutions in countries like China and Russia whose interests and actions seem diametrically opposed to the West.

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The hard edge of soft power https://www.openforum.com.au/the-hard-edge-of-soft-power/ Sun, 25 Aug 2019 22:02:38 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=22948 The original Colombo Plan gave students from Asia and the Pacific a chance to study in Australia, and now a New Colombo Plan is sending Australians abroad to learn from our regional neighbours.

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The strength of soft power https://www.openforum.com.au/the-strength-of-soft-power/ Sun, 02 Sep 2018 22:53:21 +0000 http://www.openforum.com.au/?p=16184 Soft power is a slow-growing asset, as much the product of a society as the possession of a government. But, as a twittering US president shows, destroying trust and burning a nation’s soft power can be done with awful speed.

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Finding Australia’s soft power https://www.openforum.com.au/finding-australias-soft-power/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:25:07 +0000 http://www.openforum.com.au/?p=16327 Australia must engage neighbouring nations more strategically through official and public diplomacy if it is to remain a ‘persuasive voice’ in its own region.

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