Quali sono alcuni esempi di soft power?
Prendendo la definizione del dizionario:
un approccio persuasivo alle relazioni internazionali, che in genere coinvolge l'uso di influenza economica o culturale
Ospitare, controllare o influenzare le organizzazioni straniere: governi, entità e individui: rinviare a, giurare fedeltà a, adorare, rendere omaggio a, eseguire un pellegrinaggio a, mendicare da, dipendono da, dedicare la loro vita a, o prendere come la norma in uno o più campi, conterebbe, ad esempio.
- Corpi direttivi di sport/giochi:
- FIFA (Zurigo, Svizzera), UEFA (Nyon, Svizzera), organi direttivi del calcio.
- Comitato olimpico (Losanna, Svizzera)
- ICC, RFU (Londra, Regno Unito)
- PGA (Regno Unito / USA)
- NFL, NBA, WBSC, ... (USA)
- Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile - Wikipedia (Parigi, Francia)
- Federazione Internazionale Kendo, Karate, Judo, ... (Tokyo, Japan)
- FIDE (Greece)
- Steam (USA)
- Domestic Law and administration
- Napoleonic Code - Wikipedia
- Commonwealth of Nations (London, UK)
- UK Supreme Court / Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
- European Court of Human rights
- UNSC, with vetos (NY, USA)
- International criminal court (Hague, Netherlands)
- Awards
- Nobel Prize committee (Norway/Sweden)
- International Maths Union / Fields medal committee (Canada)
- Michelin restaurant guide (Paris, France)
- UNESCO (Paris, France)
- Media awards: Oscars, Grammy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, …
- Queen Elizabeth II's new year's honours list / Engineering award.
- Harry S. Truman Scholarship, Rhodes Scholarship, …
- Olympic Games hosting committee (Switzerland)
- FIFA World Cup hosting committee (Switzerland)
- International non-governmental organization (NGO's)
- Red cross (Geneva, Switzerland)
- World wildlife fund (Gland, Switzerland)
- Greenpeace (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Amnesty (London, UK)
- Doctors without borders (Geneva, Switzerland)
- Oxfam (Oxford, UK)
- Danish Refugee Council
- Information:
- BBC, CNN, Sky / Fox News, France 24, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, CGTN, … news
- Guardian newspaper (FIFA scandal, Wikileaks, Panama Papers, …), WSJ, Le Monde, Murdock, … newspapers
- Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Heidelberg, Tokyo, LSE, Imperial, … Universities
- Académie française
- Textbooks and Journals: Pearson, Cengage, O'Reilly, McGraw-hill, Wiley, Penguin, Sybex, SAMS, Oxford UP, Cambridge UP, …
- Research papers: SJR - International Science Ranking and JSTOR
- Online repositories: Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Yahoo, Bing, Quora, The Register, …
- Religion:
- Papato (Roma, Italia)
- Elizabeth II, regina del Regno Unito, Australia, Canada, Nuova Zelanda, Giamaica, Barbados, ... difensore della fede / capo della chiesa anglicana (Londra, Regno Unito)
- Mecca (Saudita)
- Siti più importanti dell'Islam sciita
- Tecnologia:
- Vendite di aerei: Boeing (USA), Airbus (Francia), McDonnell Douglas (USA), BAE (Regno Unito), BMW - Rolls Royce (Germania / Regno Unito), GE (USA), Saab (Svezia) ...
- Vendite di farmaci e trattamenti: Johnson & Johnson (USA), Novartis (Svizzera), Pfizer (USA), Roche (Svizzera), Bayer (Germania), GlaxoSmithKline (UK), Medici senza frontiere (Francia), ...
- Aziende tecnologiche: Wikipedia, Quora, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, AMD, Apple, HP, Dell, Cisco, IBM, CA, Facebook, Amazon, ... (USA), Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Nintendo, ... (Giappone), Samsung LG (S.Korea), ARM, Dyson, Imagination (UK)
- Offrono trasferimenti di tecnologia / joint venture.
- Vendite di armi, diciamo: One chart that shows the biggest arms exporters of the last five years - and which countries are buying them
- Freedom of movement and navigation:
- USCIS (USA)
- GPS: The Global Positioning System (USA)
- Communication standards:
- Language Proficiency Tests, TOEFL, TOEIC, PTE:A, …
- Capital injections:
- Department for International Development (London, UK)
- World Bank, IMF, ECB, Asian Infrastructure, Asian development banks, …
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Israel lobby in the United States - Wikipedia
- …
- Trade Regulations:
- International Civil Aviation Organization, International Air Transport Association, … (Canada)
- International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Paris, France)
- International Organization for Standardization (Geneva, Switzerland)
- Internet
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (MIT, USA)
- ICANN (USA)
- Internet Engineering Task Force (USA)
- Lloyds of London (London, UK)
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- Certification Exams: ACA, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Linux, ISTQB, Prince, … (USA / UK)
- Openness to immigrants from the poorer / client nation (offer the dream of an escape to riches, saftey, freedom, sex):
- List of sovereign states and dependent territories by immigrant population - Wikipedia
- USCIS (USA)
- Overseas tours of cultural artifacts:
- Tutankhamun (Egypt)
- Terricotta Warriors (China)
- Pandas (China)
- Renoir paintings (France)
- …
- Tourist and pilgrimage sites
- See: World Tourism rankings
- …
to achieve your own political goals and Cultural hegemony - Wikipedia
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