Title: Why nations should pursue soft power

Speaker: Shashi Tharoor

Description: India is fast becoming a superpower, says Shashi Tharoor — not just through trade and politics, but through “soft” power, its ability to share its culture with the world through food, music, technology, Bollywood. He argues that in the long run it’s not the size of the army that matters as much as a country’s ability to influence the world’s hearts and minds.

Link: https://www.ted.com/speakers/shashi_tharoor?language=en

Title: Global Power Shifts

Speaker: Joseph Nye

Description: Historian and diplomat Joseph Nye gives us the 30,000-foot view of the shifts in power between China and the US, and the global implications as economic, political and “soft” power shifts and moves around the globe.

Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/joseph_nye_on_global_power_shifts