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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Hard Power"”.
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"Soft power efforts, hard power gains" : India's economic diplomacy towards Africa using Nigeria and Kenya as examples
… diplomacy and commercial diplomacy as soft power tools plays an increasingly significant role in the enhancement of national economic goals and enhanced economic relations between countries. Economic diplomacy is carried out by a government to support its foreign policy goals or diplomacy …
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Identity crisis : the role of organizational culture in defining public affairs and its roles, missions, and value in the United States Marine Corps
This study examined the valuation of soft power, specifically public affairs, and the understanding of public affairs missions within the U.S. Marine Corps from the perspective of public affairs practitioners and Marine Corps infantry officers. Marine Corps majors in the public affairs field and in …
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Russia's Foreign Policy in Eastern Europe: The Moldovan Question
… of instruments used within Moldova, either "soft power" or "hard power" resources, citing specific examples of each, is included. The result of this thesis is a foundation for future research of Russian foreign policy based on Russian foreign policy documents, as it pertains to the former …
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The Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitical Expansion and Institutional Instability in the DRC and Sri Lanka
… can erode strategic autonomy and intensify great‑power competition. These dynamics reflect a broader shift in the future of International Political Economy, where a more Beijing‑centric distribution of power and deeper polarization of the international system are likely to intensify. As realist …
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Cuban Embargo: An Insufficient Measure to Encourage US Foreign Policy Interests
… examines the Cuban embargo as an ineffective hard power policy and explores the potential of soft, hard, and smart power as alternative approaches to resolve the failures of the 60-year-old blockade. The paper analyzes the historical context and rationale behind the embargo and assesses its …
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Knitting the Velvet Gauntlet: Goldwater-Nichols, the end of the Cold War, and the development of American defense diplomacy
The United States military is more than a tool of hard power. It provides the United States with a suite of diplomatic tools and is itself an important producer of American soft power. Though the many repertoires of American defense diplomacy have been carefully studied and the overall phenomenon …
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Post-Saddam Iraq: Caught Between Iran and Saudi Arabia Strategic Rivalry
… grand theories about the regional balance of power are unravelled. The ideational factors have also been taken into consideration at different levels of analysis. The thesis also focuses on the actual behaviour of Iran and Saudi Arabia towards Iraq. It considers a variety of foreign policies, …
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The Development and Application of the "Petraeus Doctrine" During the 2007 Iraq Troop "Surge"
… pragmatism and the utter failure of conventional Hard Power that left a military willing to try anything; improved Iraqi Security Forces that were the product of a long-term training program; domestic pressures in the media and Congress that forced the Bush Administration to acknowledge how badly …
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Hauntological Warfare: Explorations in Propaganda, Influence Campaigns, and Online Affect
… Aesthetics</em>, investigates how ideological power continues to shape contemporary reality through both overt and spectral means. Drawing from concepts like hauntology, psychological operations (PsyOps), and disinformation aesthetics, I examine how propaganda does not simply vanish once its …
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Time-dependent Accretion Flows onto Black Holes
… attributed to the cold standard disk, and a hard power law-like component extending to several 100 keV, which cannot be accounted for by the standard disk. This situation can be remedied by assuming that the accretion flow consists not only of the cold standard disk, but also of a hot …
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Raqs Sharqi in Cultural Diplomacy; An Important but Neglected Diplomatic Tool in U.S.-Egypt Diplomatic Relations “Soft Power is a dance that requires partners.
… anti-Americanism has been on the rise. America’s hard power alone can no longer efficiently boost America’s reputation and the U.S. government has abandoned its soft power resources. Although important, the linchpin of public diplomacy, known as cultural diplomacy, I argue has become a neglected …
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Local Elites, Empires, and Responses to the Rise of Islam in the Roman-Sasanian Northern Frontier Region, 640-726
… of diplomatic connections and an exploration of ‘hard power’ and ‘soft power’ factors that potentially influenced the relationships of local elites with the external empires, and in an intellectual sense, with consideration of evolving local attitudes towards the major powers and their place in …
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Terrorism in Nigeria: a study of Boko Haram religious violence in North East Nigeria
… but now modified to include both soft and hard power approach. The study thus portrayed Boko-Haram as a domestic asymmetric conflict and a response mode to pains of frustration and poverty seething with strains of injustice, only to be addressed not by conventional warfare approach but …
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Getting Smart in the 21st Century: Exploring the Application of Smart Power in Deterring Insurgencies and Violent Non-State Actors
… a multitude of violent non-state actors. Smart power, a selective employment of hard and soft power applications, presents an opportunity to limit and deter violent non-state actors in a resource-constrained environment. Smart power, previously viewed through a largely state-on-state lens must …
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Kinijos aštrioji galia Japonijoje 2015 -2019 metų laikotarpiu /
China's Sharp Power in Japan During 2015 - 2019 Period There is an observable trend in global politics of authoritarian countries gaining more and more influence towards democratic states. What is more, some authoritarian states use aggressive foreign policy and strengthen their military forces, …
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The War on Terror and the War of Terror: Revealing the post-transformation separatism Kremlin, Radical Salafism and Post-Soviet Dagestan on a Road from the Peace to the Violence
After 1999 the situation in then relatively stable Dagestan started to deteriorate swiftly. However, unlike in the cases of previous separatist movements which sprung up in some parts of the Russian Federation after the demise of the USSS, Dagestani separatists did not officially gather under the …
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Doing Good or Looking Good? The Impact of Geopolitical Competition on Australia's Aid Performance in the Pacific
In the shadow of a “new Cold War” between China and the West, heightened geopolitical competition is being observed worldwide. This thesis investigates how such tension has manifested itself through the mechanism of aid, focusing on the case of Australia and China in the world’s most aid-dependent …
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Doing Good or Looking Good? The Impact of Geopolitical Competition on Australia's Aid Performance in the Pacific
In the shadow of a “new Cold War” between China and the West, heightened geopolitical competition is being observed worldwide. This thesis investigates how such tension has manifested itself through the mechanism of aid, focusing on the case of Australia and China in the world’s most aid-dependent …
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A "internacionalização" do português e as novas relações de poder entre os países de língua portuguesa
… atenção ao conceito de “poder suave” ou “soft power”, desenvolvido pelo professor americano Joseph S. Nye nos anos 90 do século passado. Baseado nele, muitos países de língua portuguesa exercem hoje influência política com base razões econômicas e culturais, nas quais o idioma desempenha um …
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The State of European Defence Policy and the Value(s) of Intervention
European security and defence policy has developed at a significant rate since the late 1990s. As a growing field of analysis, there have been few studies to date that have explored the foreign and domestic implications of the European Union's emerging security and defence policies. This thesis …
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