Geography A-Level
Smart Power
What Smart Power means in Geography A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Smart Power
The strategic combination of hard power and soft power resources to achieve foreign policy goals.
Topics that use Smart Power
- Superpowers (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Carbon Colonialism
- Deindustrialisation and the Spiral of Decline
- Economic Hegemony
- Economic Interdependence
- Economic Interdependence and Asymmetry
- Environmental Diplomacy and Soft Power
- Environmental Externalities of Resource Extraction
- Environmental Governance
Using Smart Power in the exam
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