HIS 227 / PSC 227, POWER AND AUTHORITY
IN NONWESTERN SOCIETIES

SPRING SEMESTER 2005

ASSIGNMENT FOUR
DUE: MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2005

Based on the reading selection you chose to complete, provide an example of one of the following uses of “soft power”:

• “non-Western national traditions, ‘Asian values,’ religious ‘fundamentalist’ nationalism or local cultural particularism” being used to oppose the “universalizing liberal, legalistic format of the Western powers' aspiring global moral order as a foil for the purpose of mobilizing popular nationalist support.”
• the utilization of the “information revolution” as an effective means to implement American values and cultural institutions abroad.
• an advantage or benefit to be gained from “a decision on the part of the United States to lead the world in abandoning some of our eroding sovereignty and subscribing to genuinely independent and representative global institutions” instead.