More: Soft Power
A war of Competing Narratives in Middle East
Narratives and metanarratives have a key role to play in determining and establishing the collective sense of history in a nation, as they fashion...
Covid-19 Sports Diplomacy: Soft power vs. populism
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...
Pandemic as the Learning Lab and Government Reloaded
How to enable a sustainable exit from the ‚Lockdown‘ Phase and create greater resilience for society ? This is an existential question not only...
Will Erdogan’s Adventures Hurt Russian Soft Power?
While the Russian Federation is actively pursuing the cultivation of its Soft Power, the results, in the present cynical and confusing international environment, appear...
COVID-19: Health Diplomacy is the way out
In the current age and time, when the world has turned into a “global village”, this connectedness brings both challenges and opportunities, At the...
Chinese soft power winning hearts and minds
Soft power cheaper than hard power, winning hearts and minds of the people, is prerequisite for the state in international politics. Joseph Nye, the...
From Arabization to Turkification: The Identity Crisis of Pakistan
Pakistan – the cradle of one of the most ancient Indus Civilization – has been suffering from the identity crisis since its independence in...
Egypt needs to better leverage its foreign policy
Despite being a developing nation incapable of providing adequate job opportunities for its youth, Egypt possesses tremendous soft power that, if well utilized, could...
Masked China plays with soft power in Southern Eastern Europe
When the first shipment of face masks and medical equipment from China arrived in Belgrade, the president of Serbia was kissing the Chinese flag...
Gains of China’s soft power in Africa over the West
China portrays itself as a “Third World” country that
pursues an "independent" foreign policy of peace. And by the Third
World, it means that China is...