... for individuals and groups to accumulate and employ influential power. In this context, we can address the attempts of intellectual and political elites to research the problematic of the emerging global reality in light of the repercussions of the Covid-19 outbreak, related to the dialectic comparison between China's rising power and the declining standing of the United States.""Here, attention should be drawn to the fact that this decline is due to the change in the nature of the world order, more than to the military or political weakness of the ...
Sports diplomacy existed long before Joseph Nye coined the term “soft power”. It was supposed to peacefully “co-opt” political actors rather than threaten or coerce them—which is, historically, how “hard power” works. But facing the Covid-19 pandemic, in existential terms, soft power gets left at the starting gate because the pandemic represents a threat greater than the threat of nuclear weapons, and mediating the Covid-19 threat it is not a series of polite conversations, but a ...
... asked once, namely in an 8-page publication by the German Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)/ Science and Politics Foundation, but more than a short question and without any answers and only in the event of a limited conflict in the South China Sea, which would not escalate in a Sino-American war. At the beginning of the Corona crisis, Trump-USA and China are as global exceptions kickstarting their economies despite losses of human deaths in order to get in a pole and winning position ...
