国际货币基金组织：衡量软实力：一个新的全球指数（英文版）

Soft power is difficult to measure directly, and existing indicators—mostly subjective and not always transparent—fail to take into account the multidimensional nature of soft power. In this paper, we introduce a new comprehensive Global Soft Power Index (GSPI) composed of six dimensions for a broad sample of countries over a long span of time. The proposed framework allows for comparisons not only at the “headline” level of the GSPI, but also at the level of the sub-indices, which in turn he