Editing Soft power (section)

== Further reading ==
* Chitty, Naren, Lilian Ji, and Gary Rawnsley, eds. (2023). ''The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power 2nd Edition'', NY: Routledge.
* [[Matthew Fraser (journalist)|Fraser, Matthew]] (2005). ''Weapons of Mass Distraction: Soft Power and American Empire'', [[St. Martin's Press]]. Analysis is focused on the [[popular culture|pop culture]] aspect of soft power, such as movies, television, [[pop music]], [[Disneyland]], and American [[fast-food]] brands including [[Coca-Cola]] and [[McDonald's]].
* Gallarotti, Giulio (2010). ''Cosmopolitan Power in International Relations: A Synthesis of Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism'', NY: Cambridge University Press. How hard and soft power can be combined to optimize national power.
* [[Joshua Kurlantzick|Kurlantzick, Joshua]] (2007). ''Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World'', Yale University Press. Analysis of China's use of soft power to gain influence in the world's political arena.
* Lukes, Steven (2007). "Power and the Battle For Hearts and Minds: On the Bluntness of Soft Power", in Berenskoetter, Felix and M.J. Williams, eds. (2007), ''Power in World Politics'', Routledge.
* {{Cite journal |doi=10.1111/1468-5965.00353 |title=Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms? |year=2002 |last1=Manners |first1=Ian |journal=JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=235–258 |s2cid=145569196 |url=https://www.princeton.edu/~amoravcs/library/mannersnormativepower.pdf}}
* Mattern, Janice Bially (2006). "Why Soft Power Isn't So Soft", in Berenskoetter & Williams (see under "Lukes")
* [[John McCormick (Jean Monnet Chair)|McCormick, John]] (2007). ''The European Superpower'', Palgrave Macmillan. Argues that the European Union has used soft power effectively to emerge as an alternative and as a competitor to the heavy reliance of the US on hard power.
* Nye, Joseph (2007). "Notes For a Soft Power Research Agenda", in Berenskoetter & Williams (see under "Lukes")
* Nye, Joseph (2008). ''The Powers to Lead'', NY Oxford University Press.
* {{cite journal |last1=Nye |first1=Joseph S. |title=Soft power: the evolution of a concept |journal=Journal of Political Power |date=2 January 2021 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=196–208 |doi=10.1080/2158379X.2021.1879572 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Onuf |first1=Nicholas |title=The power of metaphor/the metaphor of power |journal=The Journal of International Communication |date=2 January 2017 |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.1080/13216597.2016.1231699 }}
* {{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-29922-4 |title=Soft Power |series=Global Power Shift |date=2020 |isbn=978-3-030-29921-7 }}
* Parmar, Inderjeet and Michael Cox, eds. (2010). ''Soft Power and US Foreign Policy: Theoretical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives'', Routledge.
* {{cite journal |last1=Rothman |first1=Steven B. |title=Revising the soft power concept: what are the means and mechanisms of soft power? |journal=Journal of Political Power |date=2011 |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=49–64 |doi=10.1080/2158379X.2011.556346}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Surowiec |first1=Paweł |last2=Long |first2=Philip |title=Hybridity and Soft Power Statecraft: The 'GREAT' Campaign |journal=Diplomacy & Statecraft |date=2 January 2020 |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=168–195 |doi=10.1080/09592296.2020.1721092 |url=https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/157884/4/I%20Surowiec%20%26%20Long%284%2917112019.pdf }}
* {{Cite web |last=O'Loughlin |first=Ben |date=22 October 2020 |title=H-Diplo Article Review 989 |url=https://hdiplo.org/to/AR989 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422020640/https://issforum.org/reviews/PDF/AR989.pdf |archive-date=Apr 22, 2023}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Cho |first1=Young Nam |last2=Jeong |first2=Jong Ho |title=China's Soft Power: Discussions, Resources, and Prospects |journal=Asian Survey |date=June 2008 |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=453–472 |doi=10.1525/as.2008.48.3.453 |jstor=10.1525/as.2008.48.3.453 }}