Soft Power: Political Use of A Scientific Concept

The article discusses the use and transformation of the American scientific concept "soft power" in official Russian and US foreign policy rhetoric with the methodological help of Habermas' communicative action theory and its adoption to IR by T. Risse. In mainstream IR the proliferat...

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Main Author: M. V. Kharkevich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MGIMO University Press 2014-04-01
Series:Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta
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Online Access:https://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/59