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The Multilevel Implications of a Sinn Féin Government in Ireland

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 173-179, January/March 2025.
Abstract The electoral growth of Sinn Féin on both sides of the Irish border has generated much political and academic attention in recent years. The party could form part of the government in Dublin for the first time at the next Irish general election, though that outcome is far from certain.
Conor J. Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

Malta’s cultural diplomacy

, 2022
Cultural diplomacy is the promotion of one’s culture while understanding that of others. It is more focused on building relations between communities of different countries while embracing the notion that every citizen can be the actor or recipient of cultural diplomacy.
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Ellipses of Cultural Diplomacy [PDF]

Journal of World Literature, 2019
Abstract This article studies China-India cultural diplomacy in the context of the socialist Chinese literary sphere. Decentering “dialogue” as an easy metaphor for transnationalism, I propose ellipses – the mark of silences, tensions, the unsaid – as a conceptual frame that makes visible those literary ties that frustrate the logic and aims of ...
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Public diplomacy: meeting new challenges. Report of Wilton Park Conference 902 [PDF]

, 2009
What is the role of public diplomacy in the delivery of international objectives? Is there scope for more intergovernmental collaboration? Do governments understand their audiences and how best to reach them? In what ways can practitioners take advantage
Webb, Alban
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Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of Soft Power Strategies: Towards an Aggregative Analytical Model for Country-Focused Case Study Research [PDF]

, 2016
The paper advances a realist analytical model for case studies of national soft power policies. First, it argues that for the purposes of realist analysis, a soft power policy must be considered as a rational strategy pursued under the conditions of ...
Patalakh, Artem
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Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris, Matei Candea, Thyge Enggaard, Terne Sasha Thorn Jakobsen, Morten Axel Pedersen   +4 more
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Cultural Diplomacy and Sanctions as Foreign Policy Instruments during a Time of Conflict

Sprawy Międzynarodowe
In 2014, the EU imposed sanctions on the Russian Federation as a consequence of the annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine. At the same time, Austria, the UK, and Germany celebrated cultural diplomacy events with Russia, whereas Poland ...
Beata Ociepka, Justyna Arendarska
doaj   +1 more source

On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
wiley   +1 more source

Culture in Western Diplomacy

Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
What could be more antithetical than the alliance of the words “culture” and “political power”? Yet, for over fifty years, the process of European integration has been linking these opposing concepts. European culture, ‘a sort of UFO’ for most Europeans and it has become a major political and philosophical issue.
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