HELSINKI REVISITED: EUROPE’S SECURITY DEFICIT by Camiel Hamans, Jan Marinus Wiersma

“…It describes how after WWII the world believed in and worked on multilateral cooperation and consultation and how Europe in particular was therefore convinced that peace and security policies should be conducted with soft powers. The remainder of the article then proposes the two pillars on which a new security agenda should be based: multilateralism combined with a deterrent defense. …”
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Smart Mixes in International Supply Chains: A Definition and Analytical Tool, Illustrated with the Example of Organic Imports into Switzerland by Robert Home, Mareike Weiner, Christian Schader

“…Combinations of national and international, hard and soft powers, known as Smart Mixes, have been proposed as a way for governments in consumer countries to influence the behaviour of supply chain actors who operate outside their jurisdiction. …”
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Obama’s Afghanistan strategy: a policy of balancing the reality with the practice by Ra'ees, Wahabuddin

“…The US AfPak Policy’s recognition that there is no military-only solution to the Afghan quagmire and focus on soft powers and nation building efforts distinguishes it from Bush’s Afghanistan Policy. …”
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Obama’S Afghanistan strategy: a policy of balancing the reality with the practice by Ra'ees, Wahabuddin

“…The AfPak Policy’s recognition that there is no military-only solution to the Afghan quagmire and focus on soft powers and nation-building efforts distinguishes it from Bush’s Afghanistan Policy. …”
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Os limites do poder das empresas multinacionais: o caso do Protocolo de Cartagena The limits of power of multinational companies: the Cartagena protocol on biosafety by Gilberto Sarfati

“…An important conclusion of this work is to explain under which circumstances the MNCs are able to act as negotiators using their influence as well as their structural and soft powers, by trying to form transnational coalitions and by helping to build coalitions among national governments in order to defend their interests in intergovernmental negotiation processes.…”
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