Surely, as the good professor points out, we have only to gather like-minded liberals together and denounce the bullying by the Putins, the Xi Jinpings, the Assads, and even the democratically elected Trumps of the world and things will return to that thoroughly historically anomalous period between the end of the Cold War and the ascension of Vladimir Putin to power in Russia.  And if that doesn't work, then a World Peace Council will enforce its will on the bullies, who will be no match for the petitions, the social media blitzes and the non-violent protests.  Jus ask the survivors of Tianenmen Square. 

This column is nothing but unicorn f@rts.  Soft power of the kind advocated by the good Dr. only works between like-minded nations, or when it's backed up by hard power and coercion.  Vladimir Putin would eat Minzberg's lunch, and for someone as apparently learned as he is, he doesn't seem to understand the first thing about how power has always worked among us humans.