While realist scholars regarded power as possessing enough material resources to be able to lead other states to perform in a certain way ( 32 ) and measured a nation's strength in the international panorama mainly by its military capacity (considered the central point of international politics) ( 33 ), Nye emphasized how resources that are not possible to be measured quantitatively play, as well, a highly significant part in the equation, getting “nations to voluntarily do what soft power nations would like them to do” ( 34 ), avoiding coercion.
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Current political uses of sport revised: beyond public diplomacy and sportswashing.
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