{"id":1128,"date":"2016-12-07T14:17:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T12:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2017-04-07T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T11:43:42","slug":"peacetalk-eleonora-tafuro-ambrosetti-december-6-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/en\/2016\/12\/peacetalk-eleonora-tafuro-ambrosetti-december-6-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"PeaceTalk: Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti, December 6, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On December 6, 2016, guest speaker, Marie Curie Fellow and PRIMO Early Stage Researcher at Middle East Technical University, addressed a PeaceTalk: Young Scholar Series seminar at Bilkent University and made a presentation entitled \u201cThe Importance of Being Soft: Russian Soft Power Identity Narratives\u201d.<br \/>\nIn her presentation Ambrosetti touched upon one of the most problematic issues faced by soft power scholars, namely, whether Nye\u2019s neoliberal concept of soft power is Western-centric, as she explored the complexity of applying the concept to non-Western, illiberal countries or to rising powers. To that end, taking Russia as a case study and based on a triangular relationship between soft power, identity, and discourse, she explained Russia\u2019s soft power through its three main identity narratives: the multilateralist, the conservative power, and the elder brother. She concluded by giving details on how these narratives have very different effects depending on where they are employed, whether in the West or in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0629-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0629\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0629-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0629-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0629-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0629-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0634-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0634\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0634-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0634-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0634-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0634-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 6, 2016, guest speaker, Marie Curie Fellow and PRIMO Early Stage Researcher at Middle East Technical University, addressed a PeaceTalk: Young Scholar Series seminar at Bilkent University and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peace-talk-en"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}