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Foreign Policy Analysis - The Soft Power Idea Concepts
Statecraft is a disease. It sounds like a computer game. Yet it is bandied about by every commentator and media reporter between Washington and Canberra. Over the next two seasons of this podcast I want you to unpack what on earth influence means and how states go about seeking to achieve it. We thought we'd begin our quest in Dilly and in a restaurant that constitutes a bit of a parlor room for development consultants, defense officials, visiting ministers, police advisors. But when our reporter Pa Latora has asked the denizens of Agora about what they were doing, what statecraft meant to them, nobody could come up with a shared definition of the term. What does the