Tristan Reed

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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Have Activists Found A Soft Power Policy More Powerful than Sanctions?

Apropos of Ibrahim Adam’s call to increase foreign direct investment in Sudan, it’s worth considering whether a strategy, pushed by American divestment activists, that bringing firms to the negotiating table offers a more productive soft power strategy than sanctions. In my view, there is a small chance that it does.
What began as a push by [...]

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