A nation can be accepted as a brand and can be viewed as a compound of both historical
and contemporary associations with a set of beliefs, customs, traditions, and various …

The soft power of India, and especially Bollywood, is powerfully illustrated in an encounter
experienced by journalist Bobby Ghosh, former Baghdad bureau chief of Time magazine …

Russia is among the world's leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet's eighth largest
reserves. Like other oil-producing nations, it has been profoundly transformed by the oil …

What is symbolic representation? Since Hanna Pitkin's seminal The Concept of
Representation, the symbolic has been the least studied dimension of political …

Since Soviet collapse, the independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have faced tremendous political, economic, and security …

Much of the existing literature on nation-building in Central Asia offers a statist top-down
approach which focuses on how the nation and nationhood is “imagined” by political elites …

Nation branding, as a phenomenon, is attracting increasing scholarly attention. However,
much of the existing literature has been written by those involved in the public relations …

Less-developed countries are typically poorly integrated into the global economy. In
general, they benefit less than others from the comparative advantages that come with …

ABSTRACT Today the Silk Road is proclaimed to be a history and heritage shared by more
than four-billion people, incorporating oceans and continents. Governments, museums …

ABSTRACT The Silk Road has become one of the key geocultural and geostrategic
concepts of the twenty-first century. Identified by two routes–maritime and overland, the Silk …