Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Arnaud de Borchgrave, a CSIS senior advisor, published a commentary on quoting the CSIS Commission on Smart Power in the Washington Times, "A Smart Power Bridge?"
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Arnaud de Borchgrave, a CSIS senior advisor, published a commentary on quoting the CSIS Commission on Smart Power in the Washington Times, "A Smart Power Bridge?"
The bipartisan conclave in Oklahoma this week was designed as a bridge between moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats who seek to use "smart power" to build a new world order. Smart power is the skillful conjugation of soft (diplomacy) and hard power (military intervention), which kept the world at peace for half the 20th century (Korea and Vietnam were bumps on the road).
Smart power, bipartisan luminaries — e.g., former Sens. Sam Nunn, Chuck Robb, Gary Hart, Bob Graham and David Boren (the convener) for the Democrats, and William S. Cohen, Bill Brock, John C. Danforth, and Chuck Hagel, the only sitting senator, for the Republicans — agreed on a formula for national salvation. Read the article
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