“That’ll Teach Them”: Investigating the Soft Power Conversion Model through the Case of Russian Higher Education [PDF]
While the international environment remains characterized by the desire of states to strengthen their position, the literature has revealed a growing preference for soft power instruments over military intervention.
A. A. Baykov +2 more
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Russia and Post-Soviet Central Asia: Reciprocal Language Studies in University Curricula and Bilateral Cooperation in this Area [PDF]
Russia and the post-Soviet countries of Central Asia are close partners, having ties not only in the economy, politics and culture, but also in the field of security. The linguistic aspect of interaction is also of great importance. This article analyzes
Bobojonov, Gayrat +5 more
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Sustainable Development of Higher Education in Russia in Conditions of Territorial Inequality [PDF]
The research is devoted to the current problems of developing the territorial structure of the higher school of the Russian. We also paid attention to its historical retrospection, considering that the territorial organization of higher education is an ...
Evdokimov, Sergey P., Vatlina, Tamara V.
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Conceptual Metaphors of Education: Grounds for Social Conflict in Modern-day Russia [PDF]
In modern Russian society, it is possible to trace the division into citizens who support the reforms of the education system, carried out over the past 20 years, and their ideological opponents.
Polyankina, Sophia
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Does Turkey have a Central Asian Project? [PDF]
Central Asia's importance in Turkish foreign policy has begun to rise since the beginning of the 2010s. Turkey determines its regional policy in the conception of the Turkic world, including Azerbaijan.
Ali Emre Sucu +3 more
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Developing Diplomats: Comparing Form and Culture Across Diplomatic Services, PRP 194 [PDF]
This study is a detailed and focused effort to broaden how we understand and conceptualize the recruitment, training, and development of professional diplomats in the twenty-first century.
Hutchings, Robert, Suri, Jeremi
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Between the Eurasian and European subsystems: migration and migration policy in the CIS and Baltic Countries in the 1990s - 2020s [PDF]
The article analyses migration from border countries (the so-called overlapping area) of two migration subsystems - Eurasian (centred in the Russian Federation) and European (the European Union) from 1991 to 2021 (before the recent events in Ukraine).
Molodikova, Irina N. +2 more
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The Swedish Institute's scholarship policy as a soft power instrument [PDF]
This paper examines how soft power, nation branding and academic cooperation came together in the scholarship policy pursued by the Swedish Institute (SI) from 1995 to 2023.
Ragozin, G. S.
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Comparative analysis of students' collective consciousness in the Russia-EU and Russia-China border regions: mathematical modelling [PDF]
Given the unique diversity of Russian regions, regional studies are becoming particularly important for ensuring the stability and development of Russia.
Simonyan, R. H., Slutskin, L. N.
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Federal University’s Role in the Implementation of the Russian Federation “Soft Power” Conception in Central Asia (The Case of Northern (Arctic) Federal University Named After M.V. Lomonosov) [PDF]
Introduction. Currently the notion of the “soft power” is perceived as an effective way of nation’s non-forcible influence on other countries with a view to implement one’s own objectives. Suchlike implementation is confined to particular spheres to form
Nataliya N. Beloshitskaya +2 more
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