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Does Soft Power Make Authoritarian Regimes Import Universities? Framing Analysis Of Discourses Around Transnational Higher Education Institutions In Kazakhstan
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Varpahovskis E., Kuteleva A.
Zelenev E., Korobochkina A., Russian Japanology Review 2026 Vol. 9 No. 1 P. 71–100
This article conducts a comparative historical analysis of the soft power strategies employed by Japan and China in Africa, emphasizing the utilization of cultural, educational, and economic instruments to augment their international
influence. Moving away from the traditional post-1990s perspective, this paper introduces an enhanced form of the timeline approach in order to examine the development process of their soft ...
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Claire Amuhaya, Denis Degterev, , in: Understanding Soft Power in Africa. The Power of Attraction from Pretoria to Beijing.: Routledge, 2025. Ch. 14 P. 178–193.
The East African Community (EAC) is often used as a yardstick by the Africa Regional Integration Index, which at times cites it as the most integrated regional bloc. Recently, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) joined the EAC seduced by its perspectives, and now, member states of the Community stretch from ...
Added: July 13, 2026
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Negative images of Africa, which define the continent as being riven with poverty, crime, or war, are increasingly being challenged. Examples of soft power, such as Nigeria’s Nollywood, athletic successes in Kenya, Rwanda’s commercial diplomacy, and South Africa’s liberal constitution, are all reasserting African agency and shaping more positive understandings of the continent.
This book considers ...
Added: July 13, 2026
Polina A. Voronova, Varpahovskis E., Peoples' Friendship University of Russia Bulletin of International Relations 2025 Vol. 25 No. 4 P. 580–597
Despite the growing academic interest in the field of cultural diplomacy, research of how this phenomenon evolves and transforms in one of its most prolific users, France, remains limited. A review of the literature on cultural diplomacy reveals a paucity of attention to institutional aspects, despite institutional reforms having the potential to effect transformative changes ...
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Kosevich E., Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 2025 Vol. 33 No. 2 P. 107–138
With the blurring of the boundaries between peace and war in their classical sense, confrontation is moving into the information space. This study traces the logic and main stages of the formation of the Russian information influence strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Russia uses various methods to wage its information wars in ...
Added: December 24, 2025
Nikiporets-Takigawa G., Филатов О. А., Политическая экспертиза: ПОЛИТЭКС 2025 Т. 21 № 2 С. 244–256
The "Taiwan issue" is becoming particularly relevant in terms of the current international situation, from the problem of relations on both sides of the Taiwan Strait it is transforming into the most important factor of the Sino-American confrontation and, thereby, security in APR. Taiwan also represents the example of the policies of national territorial entities ...
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Varpahovskis E., Anastasiia Borisenko, Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia 2025 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 136–162
Prominent video games such as Genshin Impact have been increasingly recognized asinstrumental vectors for the diffusion of information, possessing the capacity to shape attitudesand behaviors across diverse life spheres. This study employs a bifurcated methodologicalapproach involving primary and secondary data: firstly, a functional ludostylistic analysis ofthe game’s semiotic structures, and secondly, a series of in-depth ...
Added: December 5, 2025
Mokhova E., Журнал "Петербургский международный юридический форум - 2025" 2025
The article is devoted to regional model laws as a significant direction in the development of advanced legal standards. In global agenda regional model laws can become a means of influence of a regional association of a group of states in the legal space, contributing to the ‘soft law’ acting as a ‘soft power’ ...
Added: May 23, 2025
Golovlev A., Новая и новейшая история 2025 Т. 69 № 2 С. 165–177
This article examines Austria’s “Auslandskulturpolitik” (foreign cultural policy) as a distinctively Austrian form of cultural diplomacy. Unlike Germany, France, Italy, or the United States, Austria faces the challenge of representing a small, neutral European country with special ties to Central and Eastern Europe while aspiring to a leading cultural role. The study is based on ...
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Смагин Е. А., В кн.: Шестнадцатые международные научные чтения в Москве «СМИ и массовые коммуникации–2024». ЦИФРОВЫЕ МЕДИАСИСТЕМЫ: ОСМЫСЛЯЯ ПРОШЛОЕ И ИССЛЕДУЯ БУДУЩЕЕ.: [б.и.], 2024. С. 207–209.
Данная работа рассматривает феномен трансформации СМИ как инструмента мягкой силы и их функциональный переход от формирования новостной повестки дня к информационному сопровождению других государственных инициатив. ...
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Иванова Н. А., Novikov D., Fan X., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2025 Т. 30 № 1 С. 172–185
One of the possible scenarios for resolving the turbulence in world politics that is being observed is a switch to a multipolar world order. Russia and China are major powers that have stated in the public affairs that a multipolar world order is a real option to a unipolar one. The article is exploring the ...
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Основные виды силы на международной арене: структурная, сила взаимозависимости, «жесткая» и «мягкая»
Degterev D. A., Россия и мир: научный диалог 2024 № 4 С. 20–33
One of the most ambivalent and complex concepts in world politics is power, which is intangible. There are numerous approaches and interpretations of power. This paper presents the author’s hierarchy of types of power, which includes structural power, complex interdependence, “hard” and “soft power”. For each, the main methodological challenges and prospects for operationalization (including ...
Added: January 25, 2025
Колнин И. С., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2024 № 5 С. 58–69
This article marks the first attempt of a complex analysis of appeals to the image of
Zheng He and early Ming maritime expeditions (1405–1433) in the present rhetoric of the head
of PRC. In the beginning, history of the formation and transformation of the image of Zheng He
and the early Ming naval expeditions prior to Xi Jingping’s ...
Added: November 1, 2024