America's Sticky Power

The hard truths about soft power

“…Ultimately, the system itself has value for the states, and they attach their interests to its perpetuation (Deudney and Ikenberry 1999). Large quantities of soft power and high levels of attraction to culture, ideals, and values among the states in the system will greatly decrease the difficulty and costs of managing the system just as the institutional structures created by the hegemon will further bind states to its preferred system (Mead 2004). 26-27).…”

Water Security in the Middle East : Essays in Scientific and Social Cooperation

“…The substantive discussion of these factors is narrowed for the statistical analysis, which uses the variable of military mobilization to indicate leveraging of hard power and the variable of proximity to the headwaters to determine the level of control over the headwaters. Sticky power (Mead 2004 ) is economic power. It is the capacity to leverage trade and aid over other riparians that may be economically dependent.…”

“…The theoretical framework of hard and soft power (Nye 2004 ) holds considerable explanatory value for addressing these questions, particularly regarding the hard power of geographical riparian location, military capacity and the "sticky power" (Mead 2004 ) of economic infl uence. Hydropolitical complexes diff er from traditional security complexes in several ways.…”

The War on Terror and Contemporary U.S.‐European Relations

“…How those values should be advanced will surely remain as a source of disagreement both within and between Europe and America, but those values will undoubtedly continue to serve as incentives for all parties to seek some policy accommodations. Second, Europe and America are fundamentally tied by the significant economic links that serve as the “sticky power” (Mead 2004, 46‐53; Mead 2005, 29‐36) between them. Indeed, economic ties remain very strong, despite recent political differences and lingering disputes over access to both participants’ markets (Drozdiak 2005).…”