... Russia's favorable image in the world? Or is the foreign policy image not really essential for building a constructive relationship with the West?
Russia's image does need improvement, although this is very difficult and cannot be done with the help of soft power instruments, since Russia is not Georgia but a huge transcontinental country with a complex assortment of interests and values that are substantially different from those in the West and require clear-cut definition and protection. Wasting ...
How to Reinforce Russia's Soft Power
Many countries, from Romania to Israel, eagerly shore up their foreign policy arsenals through the use of diasporas that can directly or indirectly advance the homeland's national interests beyond its borders. In addition, these communities ...
... leaders to impose the country image of their liking. The state is losing the monopoly for its own image since the breakthrough technologies foster a basically different generation of citizens.
The lecture gave rise to numerous questions, one of them why soft power is so widely discussed in Russia.
Mr. Lukyanov suggested that the cause is in the depletion of the ideological arsenal Russia kept employing after the breakup of the USSR. Having processed the Soviet legacy, we are trying to use the stereotype ...
Ways of Russia-Europe Rapprochement
Humanitarian cooperation between Russia and the European Union is an efficient instrument of soft power. It should be added here that the very term “humanitarian cooperation” has quite many meanings. In working languages of the European Union, the definition “humanitarian” is used in the first place in the context of countering ...
... Paris
All of this is happening not only due to the specific features of the language but also because of the focused efforts of the government, which has long since made the diffusion and promotion of French one of the main components of French “soft power”, i.e. improving the country’s image and increasing its authority in the international arena by non-military means (economic, political and cultural).
However, let us not oversimplify the situation. Many immortal pieces of world ...
German Soft Power
Because of the emergence of the new world order's contours, changing geopolitical and economic balances, as well as the globalization of government, information space and human culture, ever more people are driven to wonder about the global ...
... “poly-centric system in international relations,” but also because of changes to the key factors allowing nations to have an impact on world policies, what comes to the fore and becomes aligned with military and political weight and economic resources is soft power: achievements in culture and arts, sciences, technologies, education, and more
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Soft power is a state’s ability to win others over, ensuring support for their agendas in international relations by demonstrating their cultural and ...
Soft Power in Current Japanese Policies
Japan has a significant history of applying soft power since it emerged as a player on the global political stage in the mid-19th century through U.S. efforts to force its inclusion in key processes underpinning ...
... FSU should become Russia's paramount strategic goal.
However, a solution would require greater consistency, greater resource input, and, of some significant interest, the application of flexible, efficient “game-changing” tools from its soft power arsenal.
Images of Russia in Public Perception
The debate about Moscow's interests in this complex, fast changing region often leave out another important issue, i.e. how the Kremlin's policies, and modern Russia as a whole, are perceived, ...
English. Advantages and Pitfalls
Otto von Bismarck was not a political analyst, and he lived long before Joseph Nye developed the notion of “soft power.” But the Iron Chancellor was a man of vision, known for his capacity for serious thought. When asked what he thought was the decisive development in modern history, Bismarck replied, “It is that the North Americans speak English....
