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World Service,11 Jul 2015,40 mins

Power and Influence

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Through the lens of American influence and power, Bridget Kendall and guests explore how power is being adapted and deployed by countries and organisations around the world. With leading political scientist and chairman of the influential Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer, whose book Superpower examines what he says are three foreign policy choices facing America, Sudhir Hazareesingh, author and professor in French Politics and International Relations at Oxford University in the UK and Dr Musimbi Kanyoro, the Head of the Global Fund for Women who discusses the use of soft power to persuade and influence and how the tools used by organisations such as hers are increasingly being deployed by Nation States. (Photo: The Statue of Liberty)

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