... became less adequate in effectuating political goals; the use of armed forces became overtly high-priced for contemporary powers than it was centuries before. This left nations seeking other means to realize their political goals, paving the way for soft power. In a 1990’s study conducted in Foreign Policy, American political scientist Joseph Nye explained soft power as the ability of one nation to get “other nations to want what it wants", or has "the authority of commanding others ...
... creating a Turan Army, Turkey needs to achieve greater progress in other areas of cooperation with Central Asian states. In addition, the lack of an appropriate level of resources—in the broad sense—is a major hindrance to military integration.
Soft Power
Andrey Kortunov:
Recep Erdogan in a Russian Minefield
Back in the 1990s, Turkey relied on both economic levers and the use of a broad range of soft power instruments in Central Asia. For instance, Turkey’s regional policy was largely founded ...
... TARGET: BEHAVIOURAL OUTCOME
Speaking of power behaviours, they are essentially action modes that define the nature of power as either “soft” or “hard.” (Ibid. 2013: 6) As per Nye's framework, attraction, persuasion and agenda-framing generate soft power (SP), while coercion, threats, payments and sanctions generate hard power (HP). Hence, it is the power behaviour that defines the nature of power (Ibid. 2011: 91-93, 2013: 6). Furthermore, power can only be judged
ex-post
(by the outcomes) ...
... system, which gives it cultural and political dividends.
The Role of Film Industry in International Politics
Over the course of the last few decades, considerable attention has been given to culture as a factor in international affairs. The concept of “soft power” developed by Joseph Nye has become particularly influential and is often used as a framework for numerous academic studies dedicated to this problem. Nye defined soft power as “the ability to affect what other countries want… [that] ...
... first innovation concerns the functioning of organizations promoting Russia's international policy and the assessment of their performance. The second determines their regional focus.
Vyacheslav Sutyrin:
“A Thousand Threads” Policy: Russia’s “Soft Power” in the Post-Soviet Space
As for the revision of the functional features of Russian institutions of humanitarian policy, the necessity to work with NGOs on the ground and use digital technologies seems crucial. Firstly, clarification of ...
How to boost Russian soft power in the Middle East
Discussions about a country’s soft power are generally triggered by foreign policy crises or an urgent need to renew the institutions responsible for projecting such power. The recent controversy in expert and journalistic ...
... remain, as underlined by American support for the protests for greater autonomy in Hong Kong (2019), and Washington’s pressure on Beijing with the accusation of the military origins of Covid-19 (2020).
In 2020, all US attempts to implement Western Soft Power in China — with the exception of Hong Kong and Macao — have had mixed success. Washington's struggle to establish mutual trust with Beijing is similar to that of Western European countries, and the tormented past and Chinese colonisation ...
The way great powers’ strategies influence the choice of a development path in oppressed societies
The classical soft power concept is not entirely sufficient to explain the phenomena of influence on transitional societies since traditional soft power tools virtually do not work there. We can see the full picture if we analyze the rivalry between the soft powers ...
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member
to the UN Security Council. Indonesian foreign policy asset as the largest Muslim majority democracy in the word in multicultural society is another factor affecting the potential in international politics which can be used to build Indonesia’s soft power.
"Soft power" is a term created by the American scholar Joseph S. Nye to define the use of positive attraction and persuasion to achieve foreign policy objectives, focusing on effective communication and international cooperation....
Serious confrontation between Russia and the West is not the best environment for developing public diplomacy: Many view it as hidden propaganda instead of a tool of improving bilateral relations between countries. How can one deal with the problem in the current situation?
“Hybrid Analytica: Pro-Kremlin Expert Propaganda in Moscow, Europe and the U.S.,” reads the title of the 58-page
report
of the of Modern Russia, released in the early October. The research points fingers at Russian, European...
