%0 Book
%A Aigerim Raimzhanova
%D 2018
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783631732229
%T Hard, Soft, and Smart Power – Education as a Power Resource
%R 10.3726/b11642
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1110421
%X In the current global context, there is a shift in power paradigm from the rigid realpolitik perspective towards the inclusion of multiple faces of power. This publication focuses on the power forms identified by Joseph Nye: hard, soft, and smart, and evaluates education as a resource of power. Resource ambiguity is one of the key shortcomings of soft power theory. Education is a smart power resource since it has both hard and soft power characteristics. The case study of Kazakhstan reveals that international educational programs allow education to become a power resource.
%K Resource of Education, Foreign Politics of Kazakhstan, International education in Kazakhstan, Education and Economic Growth, Conceptual weaknesses of soft power
%G English