The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... globalization and internationalization of higher education in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are closely tied to a country’s image promotion through public diplomacy. In this context, donor countries develop support mechanisms for incoming foreign students or interns, providing them with insights into the social, cultural, and political landscape of the host country. Until 2022, the scholarship policies implemented by the EU and national foundations and agencies in Europe and America towards Russia generated mixed reactions. There has been a contentious debate surrounding the role of scholarship support in aligning the grantee with the foreign ...
The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
... countries implement their policies following a common European approach. However, this approach assumes a certain degree of autonomy for each country. In addition, the scale and diversity of the countries of the united Europe make the specifics of their foreign and domestic policies natural. The interests of groups of countries that are ‘embedded’ in common interests are de facto the norm in European and global policy. Busygina and Klimovich, well-known Russian Europeanists, proposed an interesting formula, “a coalition ...
The concept of the European Union’s normative power
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Factors of European Integration and Geopolitical Positioning in Formation of the Baltic states Foreign Policies in 1991―2014
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Environmental aspect of the current Arctic Strategy of Sweden
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The Baltic policy of Germany and current international relations
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