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Offshore Balancing in Populist Times

Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. You may follow him on Twitter @stephenWalt.

Countering the Authoritarian Challenge – Public Diplomacy, Soft Power, and Sharp Power

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is the University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. An earlier version of this essay appeared in the Hague Journal of Diplomacy and also draws on the author’s forthcoming book Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (2020). You may follow him on Twitter @Joe_Nye.

The Foreign Policy of Populists

Johannes Plagemann is Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Deputy Professor of Political Science at Goethe University in Frankfurt. Sandra Destradi is Lead Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Professor of International Relations at Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. This essay is based on research published in the Review of International Studies. You may follow her on Twitter @SDestradi.