Arquivo por tag: Soft Power

America should cofinance the continent’s rearmament.

In trying to avoid a quagmire in Iran, America found a dead end.

America and China cannot dominate or exclude each other.

The 2026 US–Israeli war against Iran represents a pivotal moment in the transformation of regional and global security structures. The conflict was not a conventional interstate war but a multidimensional confrontation involving military, economic, cyber, psychological, cognitive, media, and geopolitical domains. It accelerated structural shifts in the international system, challenged the paradigm of American “absolute […]

Donald Trump sees himself among a line of historical figures in which foreign-policy gestures of punitive, yet “just”, power cohere into a single narrative. One can speak of an emerging imperial narrative—and of the United States as the heir to Europe’s traditional values, as Donald Trump and his team remind the Old World, writes Natalia […]

On May 25, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion titled “Is There a Future for Cultural Diplomacy in a World of Hard Power?” Moderator Anton Bespalov presented a brief overview of the history of cultural diplomacy, public diplomacy, and soft power. He reviewed the growing importance of these mechanisms in the 1990s and 2000s, […]