Soft power and all the tools of statecraft by Dr. Geoff Heriot

No longer geographically remote from the principal theatres of great power confrontation, Australia is adapting to the uncomfortable possibility of being a ‘front line state’. Increasingly, foreign policy analysts call on the government to apply an ‘all tools of statecraft’ approach to the nation’s multi-dimensional threat environment, especially across the...
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