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The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2011 -
147 pages.
What is smart power? What kind of
power is it? Is it really a new form of power? How many forms,
features, and shapes does it take? How can we recognize and
manage it? How do scholars describe it? This MPhil thesis aims
to answer these and other questions regarding the dimension of
power with a specific focus on smart power. This is a first
attempt to study smart power in the broader context of power
analysis and therefore I will follow two approaches. First of
all, I will contextualize smart power, touching on the debate
of power as an academic and political concept. Secondly, the
idea is to investigate how power manifests itself in the realms
of international and social relations. To this end, I will
address three “ideal” forms of power, notably hard, soft and –
finally - smart power.
We already know that hard power is commonly associated in IR
with realism: it is about power politics, force, and violence.
Hard power is, to a certain extent, the oldest form of power;
it is connected to the idea of an anarchic, untamed
international system, where countries do not recognize any
superior authority. Order is the result of competition for
power and wars. The possession and acquisition of resources is
the key to success. Soft power is something completely
different. In order to understand soft power a methodological
change is required. A state, an organization or a single person
can exercise power with means other than violence and force.
Persuasion, example, seduction, and myth: these are the
resources of soft power. It is being able to convince or
persuade others to follow your example, to want what you want,
rather than coercing them. Soft power is about a world in which
international institutions matter, in which war is not the only
way to settle conflicts and in which the ones to succeed are
the most powerful, in terms of natural, economic and financial
resources and are not necessarily the best equipped. And
finally, what is smart power? Where does it come from? We know
that smart power is a new and to a certain extent popular
concept, which was coined by Joseph Nye in the USA and is used
to describe a new way of dealing with and managing power. Nye
conceptualizes smart power as something lying somewhere between
hard and soft power, a sort of “third way” in the complex
jungle of power relations. But Nye also stresses that smart
power is something “beyond” hard and soft, a sort of new
approach that fits particularly well into the realm of
international relations and foreign politics. This is why we
will analyse Nye’s approach in depth, as well as the US debate
about smart power and the concrete use of this concept by the
US administration. Finally, we will investigate why smart power
is becoming popular in the EU as well. Here again,
policy-makers seem confident about using this new concept as a
political programme that involves institutions and policy
reforms.
To sum up, my argument is that smart power is definitely a new
form of power and this MPhil dissertation aims at introducing
it into the academic debate, studying it from a theoretical,
scientific point of view, investigating its origins, and the
historical and political context in which it gained popularity
and – finally – testing its possible declination in real
scenarios of international politics.