soft power

political influence without the use of force
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soft power

Summary

soft power is a sociological concept[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of sociological_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (819 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • soft power's instance of is recorded as sociological concept[3].
  • soft power's instance of is recorded as political concept[4].
  • soft power's instance of is recorded as type of power[5].
  • soft power's GND ID is recorded as 1172933596[6].
  • soft power's subclass of is recorded as power[7].
  • soft power's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/015fcd[8].
  • soft power's facet of is recorded as international relations[9].
  • soft power's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Communication[10].
  • soft power's described by source is recorded as Akademik Kaynak[11].
  • soft power's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000360861[12].
  • soft power's has characteristic is recorded as type of value[13].
  • soft power's BBC Things ID is recorded as b7cdd357-c0f6-4b62-b590-24015542a0c6[14].
  • soft power's significant person is recorded as Joseph Nye[15].
  • soft power's Quora topic ID is recorded as Soft-Power[16].
  • soft power's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19658520[17].
  • soft power's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as soft-power[18].
  • soft power's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 557049[19].
  • soft power's EuroVoc ID is recorded as 99370[20].
  • soft power's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 178601582[21].
  • soft power's Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID is recorded as 69136[22].
  • soft power's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C178601582[23].
  • soft power's TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID is recorded as yumusak_guc[24].
  • soft power's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as miagkaia-sila-ad8332[25].

Why It Matters

soft power ranks in the top 4% of sociological_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (819 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr. geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_soft-power_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{soft power}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/soft-power}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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