Germany's Soft Power Policy 2030

Scenarios for an Unsettled World

In cooperation with ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen the Hertie School is conducting a foresight project which focusses on a key question facing Germany's future foreign policy: what are possible future soft power approaches in terms of narratives, strategies, goals, policies, programmes and activities, given changing geopolitics among major powers, and divergent global scenarios for foreign affairs?

To address these questions, the project puts Germany in a comparative framework of international relations that considers the geopolitics and soft power approaches of the European Union, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, the Russian Federation, The People's Republic of China, and the Republic of India. In each case, we consider the role of soft power in the context of a country's hard and sharp power.