Hard, Soft, and Smart Power - Education as a Power Resource

By Aigerim Raimzhanova

In the current global context, there is a shift in power paradigm from the rigid realpolitik perspective towards the inclusion of multiple faces of power. This publication focuses on the power forms identified by Joseph Nye: hard, soft, and smart, and evaluates education as a resource of power. Resource ambiguity is one of the key shortcomings of soft power theory. Education is a smart power resource since it has both hard and soft power characteristics. The case study of Kazakhstan reveals that international educational programs allow education to become a power resource.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 363173221X
• ISBN13: 9783631732212
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"