Political scientist Maria Usacheva examines the implementation of instruments of soft power and smart power in Russian and German foreign policy.
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| 16 June 2016
Is Smart Power the New Soft Power? German and Russian Examples
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Nadia Tjahja is a PhD Fellow at the United Nations University-CRIS and the VUB, working on the project “The contribution of global and regional multistakeholder mechanisms in improving global governance (GREMLIN)”, where her specific research focuses on the legitimacy of multistakeholderism...