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By Olivia Michielsen While military intervention and economic sanctions remain important tools of statecraft, culture and legitimacy have become central to how power operates internationally. States influence populations and countries to maintain dominance in the international system without confrontation. One important dimension of this influence is cultural soft power, which works through media, entertainment, tourism, and national branding. Through these channels, cultural influence shapes...

By Aleksandr Crusellas Grishina While waters rise, the world’s most vulnerable drown in debt. Climate change is publicly acknowledged by the international community as one of, if not the most severe, crisis occurring during the 21st century. The majority of states cooperate year after year, on what is considered to be equal footing, to mitigate the risks posed by global warming and other environmental hazards however, some nations seem more equal than others. Since the break of the 21st...

By Albert Pampalona Lisnenko Can something abundant coexist with something there is less of? In fact, if it has the power to eliminate its less pervasive counterpart, would it even consider it? The relationship between majoritarian and minority cultures often verges on the idea of inevitable collision, frequently leading to the genesis of “cultures of resilience”, i.e., when resilience to foreign power becomes a defining key feature of the cultural identity and its historical narrative....