How Russia Can Learn From Helsinki (Op-Ed)

... of the Third World caused a reconsideration of foreign policy instruments as well, from the less-justified methods of direct force to mediated influence through setting an example and using persuasion. Fifteen years later this would be called "soft power," but at the time, it was packed into a third, humanitarian "basket" of the Helsinki process. The main deal involved exactly that — the Soviet Union agreed to the "third basket" and formal adherence to human rights ...