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Republican contender Mitt Romney is likely to echo a theme he developed in the spring primary campaign: <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/07\/24\/romney-calls-for-american-century-in-foreign-policy-address\/\">America\u2019s stature on the world stage has suffered<\/a> during President Barack Obama\u2019s time in the White House. President Obama can be expected to counter that America isn\u2019t in decline; in fact, during his tenure U.S. influence has rebounded.<\/p>\n<p>This debate is broadly about American power. But power is a nuanced concept. It manifests itself both through military muscle and cultural influence. The candidates\u2019 stump speeches rarely delineate this distinction. But global publics do. Recent opinion surveys suggest that people outside the United States question American hard power and increasingly embrace U.S. soft power.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever is president in 2013, the success abroad of his foreign policy may depend on achieving the right balance in the exercise of American hard and soft power.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full commentary at <a href=\"http:\/\/globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/09\/world-to-america-we-want-soft-not-hard-power\/\">CNN&#8217;s Global Public Square blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With less than three months to go in the U.S. presidential election, the candidates\u2019 debate over America\u2019s place in the world can only be expected to escalate. Recent public opinion surveys suggest that people outside the United States question American hard power and increasingly embrace U.S. soft power.  Whoever is president in 2013, the success abroad of his foreign policy may depend on achieving the right balance in the exercise of American hard and soft power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sub_headline":"","sub_title":"","_crdt_document":"","_prc_public_revisions":[],"_ppp_expiration_hours":0,"_ppp_enabled":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","relatedPosts":[],"reportMaterials":[],"multiSectionReport":[],"package_parts__enabled":false,"package_parts":[],"_prc_fork_parent":0,"_prc_fork_status":"","_prc_active_fork":0,"datacite_doi":"","datacite_doi_citation":"","_prc_seo_qr_attachment_id":0,"spoken_article_player_enabled":true,"bylines":[],"acknowledgements":[],"displayBylines":true,"footnotes":"","prc_watchers":[]},"categories":[118,53],"tags":[],"bylines":[],"collection":[],"datasets":[],"level_of_effort":[],"primary_audience":[],"information_type":[],"_post_visibility":[],"formats":[458],"_fund_pool":[],"languages":[],"regions-countries":[],"research-teams":[525],"workflow-status":[],"class_list":["post-31959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-global-image","category-world-elections-2","formats-report","research-teams-global"],"label":false,"post_parent":0,"word_count":205,"canonical_url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2012\/08\/09\/world-to-america-we-want-soft-not-hard-power\/","art_direction":false,"_embeds":[],"watchers":[],"table_of_contents":[],"report_materials":"","report_pagination":{"current_post":null,"next_post":null,"previous_post":null,"pagination_items":[]},"parent_info":{"parent_title":"World to America: We want soft, not hard power","parent_id":31959},"materialsOrdered":[],"chaptersOrdered":[],"partsOrdered":[],"partsEnabled":false,"datacite_doi":"","prc_seo_data":{"title":"World to America: We want soft, not hard power","description":"With less than three months to go in the U.S. presidential election, the candidates\u2019 debate over America\u2019s place in the world can only be expected to escalate. 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