Saji Weerasingham#thinktanks like the IPA are funded by wealthy donors that just want seed doubt over things like climate change (and cigarette smoking in the past) that have settled science
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Mojo ♻️How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.
#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower
How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think | Punters Politics
World news | The GuardianZack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/31/zack-polanski-offering-voters-unicorns-and-fantasy-solutions-says-head-of-fabian-society #Politics #Labour #Thinktanks #ZackPolanski #GreenParty #ReformUk #EconomicPolicy #UkNews #Economics #Business
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/29/number-people-britons-must-be-born-in-uk-rising-study #BritishIdentityAndSociety #Race #Communities #Thinktanks #ReformUk #FarRight #ImmigrationAndAsylum #Politics #Society #UkNews
Le Nouveau ParadigmeIls se disent « indépendants », « experts », « laboratoires d’idées ».
En réalité, les think tanks libéraux façonnent ce qu’il est permis de penser.
Dépense publique = problème.
Dette = menace morale.
Austérité = horizon indépassable.
Et même une partie de la gauche reprend ce cadre, jusqu’à en faire une norme.
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https://lenouveauparadigme.fr/ces-think-tanks-liberaux-qui-dominent-le-debat-public-et-veulent-nous-apprendre-a-penser/
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Jane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Your reminder that Australia's 2nd richest miner donates to @australiainstitute.org.au@bsky.brid.gy. How does a thinktank call themselves progressive when they're accepting money from Australia's 2nd largest colonialist polluter?
#Australia #AndrewForrest #thinktanks #EndFossilfuels
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Mining magnate Andrew Forrest’...
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Exactly how stupid is it to call yourself progressive, then embark on a campaign to support fossil fuels by accepting money from a fossil fuelled billionaire?
If billionaires cared about climate, poverty or ethics, they wouldn't be billionaires.
#australia #thinktanks #AndrewForrest #EndFossilFuels
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Mining magnate Andrew Forrest’...
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Business | The Guardian USRachel Reeves targets UK’s wealthiest in £26bn tax-raising budget https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/26/rachel-reeves-targets-uks-wealthiest-in-26bn-tax-raising-budget #OfficeforBudgetResponsibility #InstituteforFiscalStudies #USGovernmentborrowing #UKcostoflivingcrisis #Governmentborrowing #Taxandspending #Economicpolicy #Householdbills #Publicfinance #Budgetdeficit #Childbenefits #RachelReeves #Energybills #Communities #Budget2025 #Thinktanks #Economics #Politics #Benefits #Business
Pure AcetoneBelow is a unified, clean, publication-ready version of the research on **soft power**, written in neutral analytical style and translated fully into English. No playful tone, no persona elements — just a clear professional text.
**Title**
Soft Power: How States Influence Without Coercion and Why Political Science and Intelligence Services Study It
**Introduction**
Soft power refers to a state's ability to shape the preferences, decisions, and behavior of other actors not through coercion or economic pressure, but through attractiveness, legitimacy, and credibility. Culture, education, media, values, international institutions, and national branding form the visible layer of this influence. Beneath that surface lies a strategic mechanism: the ability to set agendas, define narratives, and cultivate long-term loyalty across societies and elites.
For political science, soft power is a tool for understanding how global influence works in a world where military force and economic leverage no longer guarantee compliance. For intelligence services, soft power represents a terrain of indirect influence — the environment in which alliances are shaped, public opinion is molded, and decision-makers form their perceptions and risk assessments. Today’s geopolitical competition increasingly unfolds not on battlefields but in cultural exports, educational programs, media ecosystems, expert networks, and information flows.
**Core Analysis**
Soft power, introduced as a concept by Joseph Nye, complements traditional "hard power" (military and economic force) by focusing on persuasion and attraction. Its effectiveness depends on perceived legitimacy, cultural resonance, credibility of institutions, and narrative consistency.
Modern states combine soft and hard power into so-called *smart power* strategies. Democratic systems typically emphasize openness, cultural presence, and institutional cooperation. Authoritarian regimes, while also deploying soft power, often rely on “sharp power,” which uses manipulative or opaque information practices to influence foreign publics and institutions.
Soft power operates across several levels:
**Cultural influence**: Media, film, music, literature, language.
**Educational influence**: Scholarships, academic exchanges, research partnerships.
**Institutional influence**: International organizations, NGOs, think tanks.
**Narrative influence**: Global reputation, national values, political identity.
**Technological and digital influence**: Social networks, digital ecosystems, communication platforms.
Intelligence communities analyze soft power as part of the broader concept of strategic influence. This includes understanding how rival states extend cultural or informational reach, cultivate proxies or sympathetic elites, shape foreign debates, and exploit vulnerabilities in open societies.
**Target Audience**
This material is designed for readers interested in international relations, political strategy, intelligence analysis, information influence, security studies, and contemporary geopolitics. It will be useful for political scientists, policymakers, OSINT specialists, journalists, students in global affairs, and anyone seeking to understand how modern states compete without direct coercion.
**Bibliography**
Joseph S. Nye — *Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics*.
Joseph S. Nye — *The Future of Power*.
Hans Morgenthau — *Politics Among Nations*.
Robert Keohane — *Power and Interdependence* (with Nye).
Janice Bially Mattern — works on discursive power.
Christopher Walker — research on “sharp power”.
RAND Corporation — studies on influence operations.
CEPA — reports on strategic communication and foreign influence.
Chatham House — analyses of global soft-power competition.
IISS — geopolitical influence assessments.
Brookings Institution — comparative studies of U.S., EU, China, Russia.
Carnegie Endowment — research on authoritarian influence strategies.
*Oxford Handbook of Soft Power* — comprehensive academic overview.
**Hashtags**
#softpower #geopolitics #internationalrelations #politicalscience #intelligence #strategicinfluence #foreignpolicy #informationinfluence #diplomacy #globalpolitics #securitystudies #statecraft #powerdynamics #sharpower #publicdiplomacy #influenceoperations #nationalbranding #globalstrategy #politicalanalysis #thinktanks #discoursepower #culturalpower #globalinfluence
If you want, I can also format this into an article layout, add sections on case studies, or expand the intelligence-analysis angle.
**Title**
Soft Power: How States Influence Without Coercion and Why Political Science and Intelligence Services Study It
**Introduction**
Soft power refers to a state's ability to shape the preferences, decisions, and behavior of other actors not through coercion or economic pressure, but through attractiveness, legitimacy, and credibility. Culture, education, media, values, international institutions, and national branding form the visible layer of this influence. Beneath that surface lies a strategic mechanism: the ability to set agendas, define narratives, and cultivate long-term loyalty across societies and elites.
For political science, soft power is a tool for understanding how global influence works in a world where military force and economic leverage no longer guarantee compliance. For intelligence services, soft power represents a terrain of indirect influence — the environment in which alliances are shaped, public opinion is molded, and decision-makers form their perceptions and risk assessments. Today’s geopolitical competition increasingly unfolds not on battlefields but in cultural exports, educational programs, media ecosystems, expert networks, and information flows.
**Core Analysis**
Soft power, introduced as a concept by Joseph Nye, complements traditional "hard power" (military and economic force) by focusing on persuasion and attraction. Its effectiveness depends on perceived legitimacy, cultural resonance, credibility of institutions, and narrative consistency.
Modern states combine soft and hard power into so-called *smart power* strategies. Democratic systems typically emphasize openness, cultural presence, and institutional cooperation. Authoritarian regimes, while also deploying soft power, often rely on “sharp power,” which uses manipulative or opaque information practices to influence foreign publics and institutions.
Soft power operates across several levels:
**Cultural influence**: Media, film, music, literature, language.
**Educational influence**: Scholarships, academic exchanges, research partnerships.
**Institutional influence**: International organizations, NGOs, think tanks.
**Narrative influence**: Global reputation, national values, political identity.
**Technological and digital influence**: Social networks, digital ecosystems, communication platforms.
Intelligence communities analyze soft power as part of the broader concept of strategic influence. This includes understanding how rival states extend cultural or informational reach, cultivate proxies or sympathetic elites, shape foreign debates, and exploit vulnerabilities in open societies.
**Target Audience**
This material is designed for readers interested in international relations, political strategy, intelligence analysis, information influence, security studies, and contemporary geopolitics. It will be useful for political scientists, policymakers, OSINT specialists, journalists, students in global affairs, and anyone seeking to understand how modern states compete without direct coercion.
**Bibliography**
Joseph S. Nye — *Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics*.
Joseph S. Nye — *The Future of Power*.
Hans Morgenthau — *Politics Among Nations*.
Robert Keohane — *Power and Interdependence* (with Nye).
Janice Bially Mattern — works on discursive power.
Christopher Walker — research on “sharp power”.
RAND Corporation — studies on influence operations.
CEPA — reports on strategic communication and foreign influence.
Chatham House — analyses of global soft-power competition.
IISS — geopolitical influence assessments.
Brookings Institution — comparative studies of U.S., EU, China, Russia.
Carnegie Endowment — research on authoritarian influence strategies.
*Oxford Handbook of Soft Power* — comprehensive academic overview.
**Hashtags**
#softpower #geopolitics #internationalrelations #politicalscience #intelligence #strategicinfluence #foreignpolicy #informationinfluence #diplomacy #globalpolitics #securitystudies #statecraft #powerdynamics #sharpower #publicdiplomacy #influenceoperations #nationalbranding #globalstrategy #politicalanalysis #thinktanks #discoursepower #culturalpower #globalinfluence
If you want, I can also format this into an article layout, add sections on case studies, or expand the intelligence-analysis angle.
