Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction..

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power..

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power..

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power….

The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - ….

His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Mus….

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate..

Every politician just has to remember how he got his position in the first place. A young candidate running for Congress or any outsider interested i….

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins..

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity..

America should find its interests in ways which are more consistent with the interests of other countries, which are things that are good for us but ….

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change th….

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself..