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Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Turkish soft power in the Erdoğan era: conception, performance and adaptation
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...
Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Russian Bear with Balalaika Playing Battle Hymns for the Baltics: The Russian Compatriot Policy in the Baltics
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...
