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The author reveals here the ways in which modern states are asserting themselves not through traditional realpolitik but through alternative means : business, language, culture, ideas, sport, education, music, even food - the texture and values of history and daily life. Moving from West to East, the book tells the story of soft power by exploring the varied ways in which it operates. Now there may be a new twist in this Great Game. With soft power's quiet ingredients - education, science, trade, cultural values - and a new emphasis on shared mutual interest, it may be the only force supple enough to tackle the challenges the future looks likely to pose - not least the slam-the-door reflexes pulling in the other direction.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS --- POWER (SOCIAL SCIENCES)

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Alors que les citoyens des Etats membres de l'Union europeenne (UE) sont a nouveau appeles a choisir leurs deputes europeens au printemps 2019, cet ouvrage interroge la signification et la pertinence d'un concept frequemment mobilise dans les debats politiques et academiques europeens : L'Europe puissance. Tensions avec la Russie, interrogations sur les relations transatlantiques et l'autonomie strategique europeenne a l'heure de l'administration Trump, incertitudes sur l'aptitude de l'UE a defendre ses interets et sa propre vision d'un monde multilateral a travers des enjeux comme le multilateralisme et le nucleaire iranien, questionnements permanents sur le role d'une UE eventuellement amputee du Royaume-Uni dans le vaste monde, ont renouvele des debats plus anciens. Pourquoi et comment parle-t-on d'Europe puissance alors que nombreux sont les sujets sur lesquels l'UE peine a faire entendre sa voix ? Comment rendre compte malgre tout de l'action et du role reels que joue l'Union sur la scene internationale ? En saisissant le concept d'Europe puissance comme un fragment de discours politique et mediatique mais aussi comme un objet universitaire etonnant, cet ouvrage etudie les liens complexes et parfois contradictoires entre la construction europeenne et la puissance, invitant a repenser l'une et l'autre dans le monde incertain d'aujourd'hui. Finalement, l'Europe puissance apparait comme un concept malleable dans le champ academique, et utile en tant que mythe de la construction europeenne comme fragment de discours politique et mediatique, ne decrivant pas une realite (l'UE telle qu'elle existe), mais un horizon, un ideal vers lequel la construction europeenne pourrait tendre selon ses partisans.

EU--FOREIGN RELATIONS --- POWER (SOCIAL SCIENCES)

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In the past decades, the world has watched the rise of China as an economic and military power and the emergence of Chinese transnational elites. What may seem like an entirely new phenomenon marks the revival of a trend initiated at the end of the Qing. The redistribution of power, wealth and knowledge among the newly formed elites matured during the Republican period. This volume demonstrates both the difficulty and the value of re-thinking the elites in modern China. It establishes that the study of the dynamic tensions within the elite and among elite groups in this epochal era is within reach if we are prepared to embrace forms of historical inquiry that integrate the abundant and even limitless historical resources, and to engage with the rich repertoire of digital techniques/instruments available and question our previous research paradigms. This renewed approach brings historical research closer to an integrative data-rich history of modern China.

History of Asia --- anno 1800-1999 --- China --- ELITE (SOCIAL SCIENCES)--CHINA --- POWER (SOCIAL SCIENCES)--CHINA --- ELITE (SOCIAL SCIENCES) --- POWER (SOCIAL SCIENCES) --- CHINA

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POWER (SOCIAL SCIENCES) --- VIOLENCE --- NATION-BUILDING --- STATE, THE

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"This book proposes a framework of analysis tailored specifically for a critical investigation of the ideology of power as it is linguistically illustrated in the military discourse of the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization. Drawing on the achievements of critical discourse analysis as a qualitative method of linguistic investigation, this book attempts to merge a critical view on discourse with the analysis of ideological values. The investigative approach used throughout the manuscript is aimed at demonstrating that there is a tripartite connection between language, ideologies, and the notion of power"--

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, NARRATIVE --- NATO --- POWER (SOCIAL SCIENCES) --- NATO--MILITARY POLICY