{"title":"Surveillance Capitalism and Instrumentarian Power: Singing in our Chains?","authors":"K. Kenny","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2022.2133821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2133821","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"16 1","pages":"138 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46789886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legitimate rule, sovereignty and transnational democracy","authors":"W. Outhwaite","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2023.2135808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2023.2135808","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Beginning with a critical discussion of Max Weber’s concept of legitimate rule, this article explores the interplay between national and transnational democracy, the authoritarian degeneration of many democratic states such as Hungary, often with a rhetoric of national sovereignty, and the prospects for extending transnational democracy in the European Union. Europe is trusted more than their national state by most Europeans, but governance at both levels is threatened by populist challenges.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"16 1","pages":"7 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43294447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The crisis of American soft power","authors":"David W. Kearn","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2022.2127277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2127277","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite the election of Joseph Biden in 2020, Donald Trump’s presidency has had a significant impact on U.S. politics and its role in the world. Specifically, Trump’s tenure laid bare a crisis of American soft power--the ability to influence others through attraction--which is a critical element of global leadership. This paper analyzes the long-term impact of Trump’s time in office on America’s soft power. While Biden’s response to the Ukraine crisis has reversed a precipitous decline in global percpetions of U.S. leadership, Trump’s tenure (and potential return) remains a persistent, negative influence unlikely to dissipate over time.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"397 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46202138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Esteem and influence: soft power in international politics","authors":"G. Gallarotti","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2022.2135303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2135303","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The vast literature and references in policy circles that have followed Nye’s seminal article of 1990 attest to the now extraordinary status of soft power in the study of international politics. And yet much has been neglected. The collection of articles in this special issue of the Journal of Political Power represents cutting-edge analyses of under-explored subjects and issues in the realm of soft power, and speaks largely to the process and impact of soft power. These contributions illuminate important nuances in the process by which soft power is manifest. They also demonstrate that soft power has a deep and significant impact in world politics.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"383 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43947284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Smithsonian’s soft power: how foreigners engage the US national museum","authors":"Irene S. Wu","doi":"10.1080/2158379x.2022.2127281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379x.2022.2127281","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Foreigners’ engagement with the Smithsonian provides clues to understanding what is attractive about America. There are two main draws -American science and technology and America’s immigrant community. For foreign visitors the National Air and Space Museum is the most popular. Foreign experts are especially drawn to the Institution’s science research and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The Soft Power Rubric uses the volume and direction of observable social interactions to measure the social connection between countries. Whether foreigners feel endearment for another country and wish to emulate it is an essential distinction between soft power and hard power.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"415 - 436"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46151238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In search of soft power: mapping the expert community with a bibliometric network analysis","authors":"A. Vladimirova","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2022.2133431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2133431","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Soft power is one of the most influential concepts in the discipline of international relations, yet it is highly criticized for ambiguity and analytical weakness. Thus, through thoughtful literature reviews, scholars continue with clarifying and mapping the theory within a broader political power research programme. It is in this scholarly context that this article offers tools from a bibliometric network analysis that could be useful in understanding scholarly approaches to soft power. The constructed network of authors with edges representing connections set on keywords allows us to demonstrate the place of the soft power expert community and the proximity of corresponding research interests.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"556 - 571"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44457100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of Russian soft power in Kazakhstan: creating an enabling environment for cooperation between Nur-Sultan and Moscow","authors":"V. Hudson","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2022.2127280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2127280","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study of soft power applies a Gramscian notion of hegemony as consent to the international arena. Drawing on an attitudinal survey conducted in autumn 2021 among higher education students in three cities of Kazakhstan, the piece argues that Russia does enjoy cultural-ideational attraction in Kazakhstan, although this does come with some qualifications. By way of explanation, various channels through which Russia communicate with the Kazakhstani audience are presented. With regard to the impact of Russian soft power in Kazakhstan, the article points to various examples of how Kazakhstani relationships and interactions with Russia are facilitated and enhanced by soft power.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"469 - 494"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45211577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testing the impact of geopolitics on European democratic countries’ soft power use","authors":"Judit Trunkos","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2022.2127279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2127279","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using statistical analysis of 29 European democracies, this article looks at the impact of geopolitical threat on democracies’ soft power reliance. For the time-period of 1999–2010, geopolitical threat is a statistically significant variable that boosts soft power use. This geopolitical theory posits that political elite create a narrative that focuses on national security and start to rely on a higher level of soft power to balance against threats. The findings provide answers regarding countries’ alliance-building processes as well as suggest that the three main paradigms of international relations are more compatible than previously stated.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"532 - 555"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47202656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From circulating liberalism to tech nationalism: U.S. soft power and Silicon Valley","authors":"Burcu Baykurt","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2022.2129781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2129781","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The global internet was originally shoe-horned into making a U.S.-led international order in the post-Cold War. Soft power enthusiasts and the early architects of the global internet worked closely to turn global connectivity into a civilizing mission. Around the 2010s, the State Department embraced ‘internet freedom’ as a soft power strategy when U.S. dominance was challenged by global and regional counter-hegemons. I argue that the ‘tech Cold War’ is not new. But the emerging narrative aims to bolster the reputation of the U.S. government and the tech industry’s corporate power, thereby hoping to restore U.S. leadership in internet governance.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"456 - 468"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43637759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pedagogical offensives: soft power, higher education and foreign policy","authors":"G. Gallarotti","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2022.2127276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2127276","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Nations have for years sought to attain crucial foreign policy goals through programs of higher education. This article, after delineating the psychological dynamics underlying the creation of soft power affect, looks at three conspicuous such programs. They are America’s Fulbright Program, Australia’s Colombo Plan and the Soviet Union’s Patrice Lumumba University. Each of these was designed to promote both broad and specific foreign policy goals in the post-World War II period. Analyzing these cases yields some essential insights into how nations attempt to raise their global influence through the medium of higher education.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"495 - 513"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44566087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}