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COVID-19 and China's Changing Soft Power in Italy. [PDF]
Chin Polit Sci Rev, 2021 This article investigates how China’s COVID-19 aid efforts affected its soft power in Italy through analyzing data on China’s COVID-19-related aid from Italy’s main national newspapers during the period March–April 2020.
Chen WA.
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Vaccine diplomacy: nation branding and China’s COVID-19 soft power play [PDF]
Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 2021 As a global crisis, COVID-19 has altered how nation-states project influence. Public health has risen to the top of every agenda as individuals, societies, and nation-states focus on a common goal.
Lee S.
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Toward a Theory of Sportswashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict
Sociology of Sport Journal, 2022 Sportswashing has emerged full force in the 21st century, highlighting the gap between word and deed in the sports world. Yet, the term suffers from definitional imprecision and is often applied solely to autocratic hosts.
Jules Boykoff
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Channelling Soft Power: The Qatar 2022 World Cup, Migrant Workers, and International Image
International Journal of the History of Sport, 2021 The overarching aim of this study was to examine the role of sport and, in particular, the impact of Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup in how Qatar has dealt with human rights scrutiny to protect its international image.
Mohammed Al Thani
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An electric-eel-inspired soft power source from stacked hydrogels. [PDF]
Nature, 2017 Schroeder TBH +7 more
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The Strategic Review for Southern Africa, 2020 Since 1994 when South Africa emerged from the doldrums of apartheid isolation, there has been much contention about the hegemonic profile of South Africa as well as its Nigerian counterpart whose continental leadership have reputedly held sway in Africa ...
Olusola Ogunnubi, C. Isike
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China's “Politics of Harmony” and the Quest for Soft Power in International Politics
International Studies Review, 2020 This article engages with China's “politics of harmony” to investigate the dangers and possibilities of soft power as a concept and practice. Chinese sources claim that China will be able to exercise soft power due to its tradition of thinking about ...
Linus Hagström, Astrid H. M. Nordin
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Climate, 2019 Climate change has been one of the most debated topics in the past few decades, but a number of challenges have hindered the development of robust policies and strategies by nations.
Aleksandrina V. Mavrodieva +3 more
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The rise of digital platforms as a soft power apparatus in the New Korean Wave era
Communication and the PublicBy employing digital soft power as a theoretical framework, this article examines the increasing role of domestic digital platforms in the New Korean Wave and their contributions to cultural diplomacy.
D. Jin
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A microscale soft ionic power source modulates neuronal network activity
Nature, 2023 Bio-integrated devices need power sources to operate^ 1 , 2 . Despite widely used technologies that can provide power to large-scale targets, such as wired energy supplies from batteries or wireless energy transduction^ 3 , a need to efficiently ...
Yujia Zhang +6 more
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