It’s called “soft power,” defined as “a persuasive approach to international relations, typically involving the use of economic or cultural influence.” To use an American idiom, soft power is the carrot as opposed to the stick, the use of aid money or funding support, cultural exchanges, and educational and development grants by a foreign government to “win friends and influence people” in a territory it’s interested in. The United States federal government, for instance, has one of
Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio will retire “upon reaching” his 70th birthday on Oct. 26. During his 18 years in the Supreme Court, he had five chances to be chief. The first was on May 17, 2010, upon the retirement of CJ Reynato S. Puno. However, though already the most
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