Review of James Sherr book “Hard Diplomacy and Soft Coercion. Russia’s influence abroad”

... underscored its claim to be a “value center”. Although the “colored revolutions” of 2003-2004 in Georgia and Ukraine were a catalytic moment for re-novation of Russia’s soft power development. The relationship between hard and soft power was acknowledged by Joseph Nye – a person who introduced this term. James Sherr argues that in case of Russia this is an understatement as the tendency of Russian foreign policy actors is to combine hard and soft power approaches. In Nye’s definition the soft power predicated to archive a positive end. But the author ...