Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... strategy also points out defence cooperation with France, which was formalised in a memorandum of understanding in June 2014. The memorandum particularised Franco-Danish cooperation in countering piracy, joint actions of Danish and French armed forces in Kosovo and Mali, emphasising the importance of sharing experiences by the Danish and French navies. During the signing of the memorandum, Defence Minister Nicolai Wammen described Denmark as a ‘country with limited resources pursuing an active foreign ...
Models of narrative syntactics as a tool for analysing images of states
... consideration from the perspective of actantial roles characteristic of the states in question in certain discourses. A. J. Greimas's model of narrative syntactics is used to demonstrate how syntactic descriptions of images of states can be built in the case of Kosovo and South Ossetia as presented in official Russian political discourse.
1. Берендеев М. В. «Образ» как эпистемологическая категория в дискурсивных практиках // МЕТОД : ...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... country were awarded SI scholarships, a number comparable to that of Russian citizens.<31> In addition, the SI introduced a special quota for applicants from Turkey and the West Balkans (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Northern Macedonia, Kosovo). In this group, Turkish applicants were predominant, receiving 10 scholarships, a number comparable to the number of approved applications from Russia.<32> This distribution policy aligned with the EU’s soft power strategy, which aimed ...
The unexpected someone in Nobel history
... practices of the Western world that lead to the “death of the subject” (Foucault). After Handke’s essays on Yugoslavia had been published in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung in 1996, where he supported the Serbs, he became persona non grata not only in Kosovo and Sarajevo, but also among the intellectual elite of the West. Therefore, the Nobel Prize came as a complete surprise for the author and sparked a furious protest from the world’s leading media giants. One of the conclusions of the article,...