The production of soft power: practising solidarity in Brazilian South–South development projects

Bry, Sandra

doi:10.1080/02255189.2015.1066666

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“…As Robledo (2015, p. 3) notes, in practice the motivation to provide foreign aid often results from a conflict between the moral obligation of the donor and the desire to advance its national interest. Frequently, foreign aid is seen as being driven by the strategic interests of donor states (Schraeder, Hook & Taylor, 1998), and as an instrument to advance the national interest in terms of power and geostrategic interests (Morgenthau, 1962, p. 301), becoming a form of "soft" power (Bry, 2015;Gallarotti, 2011). From this realist perspective, SSC can be seen as a strategy used by the South to secure or increase power; and to elevate their influence in the international arena (Jules & de s a e Silva, 2008, p. 53).…”

Section: South -South Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The gift of health: Cuba’s development assistance in the Pacific

2020

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Since 2006, 50 Cuban doctors have worked in Pacific Island countries (PICs), while 250 Pacific islanders have studied medicine at the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba, nearly doubling the medical workforce in some countries. Although Cuba has pursued an extensive South-South Cooperation (SSC) programme in health around the globe for 60 years, the relatively recent presence of Cuba in the Pacific is intriguing. The programme is based on what Cuba has called the "multiple coincidences" and shared experiences between Cuba and PICs as Small Island Developing States facing common challenges. Proponents argue Cuba's expertise in providing community-based and human-capital oriented care health care in low-resource environments could provide a suitable model for meeting the health goals and needs of PICs. Moreover, Cuba's medical cooperation is grounded in an ethics of solidarity and offers a clear example of social justice-oriented south-south cooperation which aims to both address immediate humanitarian need and to transform power structures that limit the accessibility and availability of sustainable health care within partner countries. Yet despite this there has been little research on Cuba's approach to medical cooperation in the Pacific. This paper addresses this gap, drawing on Maussian gift theory to argue that the Cuban 'gift of health' provides much needed capacity in health while building the dignity of both partners. As a theory of solidarity with distinct Pacific roots and which links clearly to the solidarity-based model of Cuban cooperation based on egalitarianism and relationship, gift theory provides an explanation for the presence of Cuba in the Pacific and highlights the importance of equitable relationships and dignity in development partnerships, providing theoretical roots to the idea that there might an alternative to traditional models of aid and development in the region.

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Section: South -South Cooperationmentioning

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The gift of health: Cuba’s development assistance in the Pacific

2020

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“…Nye influentially described soft power as the ability to use persuasion or cooptation via lower priority areas, especially culture, to shape the ideologies, preferences, and behaviors of other states 36 . Since its original formulation, this concept has been widely used by international relations scholars to analyze cooperation between states, including in relation to global health 37,38 .…”

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South-South cooperation in health: bringing in theory, politics, history, and social justice

2017

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Since the mid-2000s, the practice of South-South cooperation in health (SSC) has attracted growing attention among policymakers, health and foreign affairs ministries, global health agencies, and scholars from a range of fields. But the South-South label elucidates little about the actual content of the cooperation and conflates the “where” with the “who, what, how, and why”. While there have been some attempts to theorize global health diplomacy and South-South cooperation generally, these efforts do not sufficiently distinguish among the different kinds of practices and political values that fall under the South-South rubric, ranging from economic and geopolitical interests to social justice forms of solidarity. In the spirit of deepening theoretical, historical, and social justice analyses of SSC, this article: (1) critically revisits international relations theories that seek to explain SSC, exploring Marxian and other heterodox theories ignored in the mainstream literature; (2) traces the historical provenance of a variety of forms of SSC; and (3) introduces the concept of social justice-oriented South-South.

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“…So, nations must often be able to carve themselves a specific niche within the diplomatic world if they want to exert soft power; for this particular aspect, development is a popular field. Brazil, for example, has engaged in solidarity development cooperation, and evidence has shown that a more positive image of Brazil amongst aid recipients has formed not on the basis of what has been achieved via the project but more on how the management and relationship between entities and individuals were developed and sustained (Bry 2015). The development of a style, of a presence and of a voice is also what Norway has been recently cultivating.…”

Section: Unique Ways To Consider Soft Power? Niche and Growth Diplomacymentioning

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Hard, Soft, Smart? North Korea and Power: It’s All Relative

Grzelczyk¹

2017

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North Korea is notable for its isolation, yet the Korean Central News Agency’s daily editions are filled with articles outlining international admiration for Pyongyang and its leader. Is Pyongyang actively promoting soft power as an integral part of not only its survival, but its development strategy? While scholarship on North Korea tends to focus on Pyongyang’s “high profile” relations with China or Russia (Shambaugh 2003, McCormack 2004, Wu 2005) or with nations seeking to cooperate on weapons of mass destruction (Henriksen 2001), little attention has been paid to how the DPRK engages in seemingly peaceful ways with the world. This article examines the notion of hard, soft, smart and other power declensions, and applies a soft-power framework to investigate DPRK rhetoric and the development of partnerships with both states and non-state actors. It suggests that the DPRK has long pursued a strategy of diplomatic diversification, which includes a more sophisticated understanding of power than previously considered in the literature.

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The production of soft power: practising solidarity in Brazilian South–South development projects

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

The gift of health: Cuba’s development assistance in the Pacific

The gift of health: Cuba’s development assistance in the Pacific

South-South cooperation in health: bringing in theory, politics, history, and social justice

Hard, Soft, Smart? North Korea and Power: It’s All Relative

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