Narratives of Ukraine on the Information Battlefields of Global Media
Chapter by Natalia Chaban, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Chapter 10, Narratives of Ukraine on the Information Battlefields of Global Media, contributes to the ongoing debate on how narratives shape global influence by offering a comparative analysis of media portrayals of Ukraine during 2022–2023. It examines how narratives differ between the West, the Global South, and China, analyzing media coverage alongside public opinion surveys and knowledge production from think tanks and academia.
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Exploring Global Korea Scholarship as a Public Diplomacy Tool
By Kadir Ayhan, Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, Korea.
This paper examines how South Korea’s Global Korea Scholarship (GKS) program shapes international students’ perceptions of the country. By analyzing changes in students’ and alumni’s emotional and intellectual evaluations of Korea, the study finds that participants tend to view Korea more positively after their arrival.
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“Hello from the Other Side” Albania and Kosovo’s Distinct Approach to Religion and Politics
By Jeta Abazi-Gashi, University of Leipzig, Germany.
Jeta Abazi-Gashi is the current Visiting Scholar at IPDGC. Her paper, “Hello from the Other Side”: Albania and Kosovo’s Distinct Approach to Religion and Politics, explores how two Muslim-majority but constitutionally secular states, Albania and Kosovo, navigate the complex boundary between religion and politics through national symbols, historical narratives, and evolving geopolitical influences.
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Strategic Ontologies: Narrative and Meso-Level Theorizing in International Politics
By Ben O’Loughlin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and Adam B. Lerner, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
Ben O’Loughlin was a Visiting Scholar at IPDGC in Spring 2023. He presented and recently published his paper titled Strategic Ontologies: Narrative and Meso-Level Theorizing in International Politics, Dr. O’Loughlin offers a new theory of incremental theoretical evolution that connects the practice of international politics with disciplinary IR.
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Beyond Soft Power: Analyzing Russian and Chinese Vaccine Diplomacy in the South Caucasus
By Mariam Gamdlishvili, Georgian Institute of Politics, Policy Paper No. 27, December 2021.
Mariam Gamdlishvili was a Muskie Fellow attached to IPDGC in Summer 2021. Her role at the Institute was to assist with designing a Distinguished Humphrey Fellow program on Media and Disinformation for a group of media professionals from Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia, and Turkey.
Her paper looks at the use of soft power – the abilities of states to influence behavior and attitudes of foreign populations through attraction, rather than through military or economic means (i.e., hard power) – by a number of international actors is not a novel phenomenon and is exercised in various ways targeting societies and countries globally.
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