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11/07/2015 GMT

Power and Influence

BBC World Service - The Forum, Power and Influence

How countries and global organisations are adapting to a shifting world.

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.

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