Throughout 2017, the Russian state broadcaster, RT (formerly Russia Today),
commemorated the centenary of the 1917 revolution with a social media re-enactment …

In the context of deteriorating relations with 'Western'states, Russia's state-funded
international broadcasters are often understood as malign propaganda rather than as …

This chapter offers an experiential theory for intended and unintended attraction-based
influence within a milieu of international competition and cooperation in a fractured Kantian …

This article is based on multilingual research that analyses the British Council Shakespeare
Lives programme. Based on a study of the global Twitter campaign to promote the …

In the context of China's ascendancy, the world watches and listens. China wants to project
a soft power image. One channel for its soft power communication–about its success and …

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, cultural policymaking frequently came to the fore in
media debates about the impact of the crisis and measures to alleviate it. In this article, we …

During the last decade, there has been growing academic interest in new public diplomacy,
which anticipates a more collaborative approach to international relations and contributes to …

Online platforms are programmable architectures that enable the organization of
relationships between users. These digital ecosystems test the ability of states to exert soft …

This thesis explores the role of exile in the work of the Spanish Republican Arturo Barea
(1897-1957). It suggests that, linked to the movements that exile generates (physical, social …

Since its introduction by Joseph Nye in the late 1980s, the concept of soft power has been a
recurrent subject in theoretical debates, not only within the field of international relations but …