France - A Super Softpower?

France was dubbed the number one soft power by some of the leading indexes on the matter. In this video we go through the concept of soft power and explain why France is on the very top.

The concept of soft power was primarily coined by the political scientist Joseph Nye. As information is more global and accessible than ever, soft power plays an increasingly important role in world politics, where a country's image affects what hand it has to play on the world stage.

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[1] 00:33 https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/propaganda-isnt-way-soft-power
[2] 00:43 Shuja, Sharif, ’Why America cannot ignore soft power’ in 290 Contemporary Review 16.
[3] 00:54 Monocle soft power survey 2018/2019; Portland the soft power 30 report 2019, available at https://softpower30.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Soft-Power-30-Report-2019-1.pdf
[4] 01:34 Nye, Joseph, Soft Power – the means to success in world politics (2004), pp. 5-7.
[5] 01:46 Nye, Joseph ’Get Smart – Combining Hard and Soft Power’ in 88 Foreign Affairs Reviews 160.
[6] 02:50 http://www.ejinsight.com/20190814-frances-yellow-vest-movement-and-the-grand-debate/; https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/frances-great-debate-how-it-worked/; https://www.politico.eu/article/france-set-for-grand-debate-on-twitch/
[7] 03:09 https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/france/
[8] 03:32 https://www.france24.com/en/20190709-macron-seeks-lead-eu-role-iran-crisis; https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-lebanon-saudi/without-france-lebanon-would-probably-be-at-war-macron-says-idUSKCN1IT1P1
[9] 03:47 https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/80042
[10] 03:55 https://www.ft.com/content/eda39e1e-f3eb-11e9-b018-3ef8794b17c6
[11] 04:17 https://www.ethnologue.com/guides/ethnologue200
[12] 04:30 https://globaldiplomacyindex.lowyinstitute.org/country_rank.html
[13] 05:23 Nye, Joseph, ‘Hard, Soft, and Smart Power’ in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (2013).
[14] 05:35 IDEA, The Global State of Democracy 2019 (2019), p. 3, available at https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/publications/the-global-state-of-democracy-2019.pdf; https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/14/more-than-half-of-countries-are-democratic/

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