“As their economic primacy waned, the British put great faith in what they called their ‘prestige’ – what we today call soft power – to offset the loss of more tangible strategic assets. Alas, they found it was not much help once the substance of wealth and power was gone.”
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Expect talk of ‘soft power’ to increase in proportion to American decline.
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ultimate lesson of the papacy and the japanese emperor, all the legitimacy in the world pales in the face of force of arms
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