The Future of Soft Power and International

Education

NAFSA 2008 Annual Conference Session

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
2:30 – 3:45 pm

Soft Power allows nations to achieve goals without

military force. Explore the history and perceived
decline of American Soft Power, and the
ethics/tactics of International Educator
involvement. Participants from all Knowledge
Communities are invited to contribute during the
presentation and to ongoing research. Non-US Soft
Power perspectives especially welcome.

Presenters:

Jed Willard, LanguageCorps/Harvard Kennedy School

of Government
jed_willard@ksg08.harvard.edu

David Comp, The University of Chicago

dcomp@uchicago.edu

Bryan McAllister-Grande, Brandeis University

bgrande@brandeis.edu

Hand-outs, additional resources, and discussion

Please continue to check back as we add more
resources and a possible wiki-site to this page. We
hope it will become a place for on-going
discussion:
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