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This chapter focuses on introducing Nye’s theory of soft power through the hard power and soft power, status quo and rising power, and soft power in reality. Nye’s soft power theory is utilized to examine the trends of the globalization and internationalization worldwide. For this study, the core idea of shaping soft power is identified to explore the rationale of the globalization and internationalization of higher education in a political science domain. In the domain of the international political science, the Nye’s theory of soft power provides specific lens to examine the interdependency and complexity of internationalization of higher education in the increasingly developed trends of globalization worldwide. Thus, the next section focuses on introducing the details of the hard power and soft power, status quo power and rising power, and soft power in reality contributing on investigating the nature of soft power in an interconnected world.
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Li, J. (2018). Introduction on Nye’s Theory of Soft Power. In: Conceptualizing Soft Power of Higher Education. Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0641-9_1
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