Turkish soft power has experienced a decline over the last decade. The existing literature has mostly neglected the assessment of the influence of both the leader’s conception and domestic and international changes on Turkish soft power. Addressing this issue, this article aims to answer the following research question: How did Erdoğan’s conception and performance of...
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The compatriot concept is what Russia created and transformed into the compatriot policy in the 1990s. Russia has benefitted from the compatriots abroad as an efficient tool for Russian foreign policy making. Russia has invested in soft power instruments like state organizations since 2003 to influence the Russians and Russian speaking people in the post-Soviet...
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The paper explores the core concept of “deNATOisation” as articulated by the Kremlin and its contemporary implications within the context of the Russian Federation’s full-scale war against Ukraine. Significant attention is devoted to analyzing the historical background of this policy, viewed through the lens of the evolution of relations between Russia and NATO in the...
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This article is focused on two competing strains of legitimacy research in the European Union, taking as an example the discourse regarding the democratic deficit of the European Commission and the conceptualization of the EU as a regulatory state and not a democracy. The focus on the legitimacy of the European Commission is pressing due...
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This paper analyses the mobilization of Czech civil society in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, focusing on how selected non-governmental organizations framed the conflict in their public communications. Drawing on framing theory and employing a qualitative content analysis of websites and Facebook posts, we explore the diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational frames used by...
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