Smarter power : the key to a strategic transatlantic partnership / edited by Aude Jehan and András Simonyi.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Over the past decade the limits of traditional power have been exposed by expensive and unpopular wars, recession, ballooning debt, revolutions of hope turning into despair, as well as the rise of China and other regional powers, including a resurgent and aggressive Russia. Contemporary challenges require a more sophisticated blend of hard and soft power tools, adapted to specific circumstances. This volume analyzes the power tool box in its complexity. Authors make the case for a 'spectral power' approach that supersedes artificial dichotomies between Hard and Soft Power. They also address practical and institutional challenges that stand in the way of a true Smarter Power strategy"--Back cover.