The limits of Russia's ‘soft power’

Rutland, Peter; Казанцев, Андрей Анатольевич

doi:10.4324/9781315197159-4

Cited by 10 publications

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“…Likewise, the use of soft power through governmental and quasi-governmental institutions such as the Russia Today news agency, as well as other technological and civil society tools as outlined in the Russian Foreign Policy Concept of 2016, also caused concern (Mäkinen 2016). The constraint Russia encounters here is how its soft power actions may be interpreted as a challenge to established order, triggering perceptions of a "revisionist" Russia (Rutland and Kazantsev 2016).…”

Section: Policy Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Russian nuclear energy diplomacy in Finland and Hungary

Aalto

Nyyssönen

Kojo

et al. 2017

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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We compare Russian nuclear energy diplomacy towards Finland and Hungary, where the Russian state corporation Rosatom intends to build nuclear power plants by the 2020s. Russian nuclear energy diplomacy features Rosatom working with other state institutions, its own subsidiaries and an extensive network of companies and R&D actors to support Russian nuclear power projects abroad. Using the structuration approach, we find three interests driving such diplomacy: energy business and associated profits; modernization of the Russian economy, including the diversification of its export structure; while foreign policy interests are also involved, considering the constraints emerging in EU-Russia energy diplomacy in the oil and gas sectors, including the sanctions since 2014. Some domestic actors in Finland and Hungary make the linkage between nuclear energy and foreign policy as explicit as do some western commentators. Seeking to pursue these interests, Russian actors must accommodate their considerable assets to the structural constraints they encounter in the target countries. We identify four structural dimensions The Russian actors are well endowed as regards the resources, technology, and infrastructure dimension; and the dimension of finance, business models, and markets. However, on the institutional dimension they face a less controllable environment. Regarding the ecological dimension, they must conform to local safety requirements. In both cases, Russian actors were able to strengthen perceptions of joint interests with actors in the target country facilitating the nuclear power plant projects, thereby paving the way for the use of soft power.

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Section: Policy Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Russian nuclear energy diplomacy in Finland and Hungary

Aalto

Nyyssönen

Kojo

et al. 2017

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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“…On reading the documents phrased in such a manner, one cannot help wondering about the genuine reason behind their creation. It seems that they are supposed to divert attention from Russia's own, aggressive schemes or important internal challenges (Rutland, Kazantzev, 2016;Giles, Hanson, Lyne, Nixey, Sherr. Wood, 2015).…”

Section: The Importance Of Military Strength In the Modern Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global and regional security. A return to military strength (?)

Gizicki¹

2020

SPS

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The aim of the paper is to analyse the importance of military power potential in the creation of modern international relations. Research data encompass the perspective of both states and international organisations and the analysis proper covers the issue of military strength as the main component defining the status and operational capability of states and international organisations in a crisis situation. Modern international relations are the resultant of multiple determinants. Over the past several dozen years it has been possible to observe various emphasis patterns as regards the majority of those. The phenomenon also affected, and that to a great extent, the perception of military strength. The strength in question still constitutes a basic factor determining the position of a state in political world order. However, there is no one, universally accepted and binding model of strength as a component of modern international relations. One can still come across arguments of supporters of both the so-called soft power and hard power approaches.

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“…The Russian state has engineered a great many institutions and initiatives that would expose the world to Russian society, from the international TV station Russia Today to mega events like the Sochi Olympics in 2014 and hosting the World Cup in 2018. Russia has also been distinct in its attempts at regional soft power dispersion through the Russotrudnichestvo, an agency dedicated to the promoting the endearment of the 125 million ethnic Russians and Russian speaking people residing in the former Soviet Union (Rutland and Kazantzev 2016).…”

Section: A Augmentation Of Soft Power Through Amalgamation: Not Somentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But unlike the other nation that has most vigorously constructed a soft offensive (China), scholars have generally seen Russian soft power as a failure with respect to compensation functions. By almost all accounts, China has done a far better job (Rutland and Kazantzev 2016).…”

Section: D Compensationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Compound soft power: the BRICS and the multilateralization of soft power

Gallarotti¹

2019

Emerging Powers in International Politics

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This article offers a complementary analysis to the prevailing literature on soft power by addressing the issue of multilateral soft power. While the prevailing literature on soft power tends look at how soft power manifests itself within individual nations, this article attempts to analyze the manifestations of collective soft power in the vehicle of a multilateral organization. This can be referred to as compound soft power. Such an analysis looks at a macro-level class of soft power. In doing so, it looks more broadly at the configuration of the forest, in contradistinction to the prevailing research on soft power, which looks predominantly at individual trees (i.e., individual country analysis). While this analysis of compound soft power is undertaken specifically within the context of the BRICS, it is intended to be generalized to all international organizations.

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The limits of Russia's ‘soft power’

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Russian nuclear energy diplomacy in Finland and Hungary

Russian nuclear energy diplomacy in Finland and Hungary

Global and regional security. A return to military strength (?)

Compound soft power: the BRICS and the multilateralization of soft power

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