Giulio Gallarotti, Cosmopolitan Power in International Relations: A Synthesis of Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2010, how hard and soft power can be combined to optimize national power
Giulio Gallarotti, The Power Curse: Influence and Illusion in World Politics, Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner Press, 2010, an analysis of how the over reliance on hard power can diminish the influence of nations
Giulio Gallarotti. "Soft Power: What it is, Why it’s Important, and the Conditions Under Which it Can Be Effectively Used" Journal of Political Power (2011), works.bepress.com
Soft Power and US Foreign Policy: Theoretical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed Inderjeet Parmar and Michael Cox, Routledge, 2010
Steven Lukes, "Power and the battle for hearts and minds: on the bluntness of soft power," in Felix Berenskoetter and M.J. Williams, eds. Power in World Politics, Routledge, 2007
Janice Bially Mattern, "Why Soft Power Is Not So Soft," in Berenskoetter and Williams
J.S. Nye, "Notes for a soft power research agenda," in Berenskoetter and Williams
Young Nam Cho and Jong Ho Jeong, "China's Soft Power," Asia Survey,48,3,pp 453–72
Yashushi Watanabe and David McConnell, eds, Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States, London, M E Sharpe, 2008
Ingrid d'Hooghe, "Into High Gear: China’s Public Diplomacy’, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, No. 3 (2008), pp. 37–61.
Ingrid d'Hooghe, "The Rise of China’s Public Diplomacy", Clingendael Diplomacy Paper No. 12, The Hague, Clingendael Institute, July 2007, ISBN 978-90-5031-117-5,36 pp.
"Playing soft or hard cop," The Economist, ngày 19 tháng 1 năm 2006
Y. Fan, (2008) "Soft power: the power of attraction or confusion", Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 4:2, available at bura.brunel.ac.uk
Bruce Jentleson, "Principles: The Coming of a Democratic Century?" from American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century
Jan Melissen, "Wielding Soft Power," Clingendael Diplomacy Papers, No 2, Clingendael, Netherlands, 2005
Chicago Council on Global Affairs, "Soft Power in East Asia" June 2008
Joseph Nye, The Powers to Lead, NY Oxford University Press, 2008
Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World (Yale University Press, 2007). Analysis of China's use of soft power to gain influence in the world's political arena.
John McCormick The European Superpower (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Argues that the European Union has used soft power effectively to emerge as an alternative and as a competitor to the heavy reliance of the US on hard power.
Ian Manners, Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?, princeton.edu
Middle East Policy Journal: Talking With a Region, mepc.org
Salvador Santino Regilme, The Chimera of Europe's Normative Power in East Asia: A Constructivist Analysis Regilme, Salvador Santino Jr. (tháng 3 năm 2011). “The Chimera of Europe's Normative Power in East Asia: A Constructivist Analysis” (PDF). Central European Journal of International and Security Studies. 5 (1): 69–90. Bản gốc (PDF) lưu trữ ngày 12 tháng 3 năm 2012. Truy cập ngày 25 tháng 3 năm 2013.Quản lý CS1: ngày tháng và năm (liên kết)
