In a piece he authored in January for the Deseret News, Daniel Runde cites 'soft power' as a term coined by political scientist Joseph Nye Jr. that describes power wielded by persuasion, not force.
. Runde said the two superpowers used their unproven, domestically developed vaccines as a diplomatic weapon to win favor with countries facing resource challenges that were desperate to find ways to combat the virus.
Thomas Holst, Praopan Pratoomchat, Andrea Brandley, Heidi Prior and Cindy Wilmshurst, left to right, take part in a discussion at an event hosted by Deseret Magazine at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute in Salt Lake City on Thursday. This idea is also at the heart of Runde's new book, "The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership Through Soft Power," published in December.
"What most countries want from us … are things like access to innovation," Runde said. "They admire our system of higher education. There are some challenges with our system of higher education but, net-net, it's one of our greatest assets in the world. "Utah is a mineral superpower," Runde said. "Utah is a higher education superpower. Utah is a tech hub. Utah is a place with a lot of interconnectivity, with many people who speak foreign languages and a sensitivity and understanding that the rest of the world is important to us and that we're interdependent."
"China and Russia have the ability to fill the voids that the U.S. and our partners leave behind," Runde said. "We need to make an intentional decision to work with our partners to take a 20- or 30-year approach to respond to the non-military challenges of China and Russia.
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