scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEMOCRATIZATION AND RELIGIOUS SECURITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
Oleg Tkach
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Modeling And Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
Religious Associations ◽  
Established Norm ◽  
Cultural Reality

The article examines the problems of the component s of the concept of threats to religious security, for example, which are transformed into concepts. Religion as a relatively independent socio-cultural reality needs protection from internal and external threats. Religious security is a system of conditions that ensures the preservation of the traditional religious system within the established norm that has historically developed. The problem of religious security was identified when the cases of anti-state, anti-social activities of religious associations became more frequent. Methodology: The following research methods were used to address the issues set in the article: general scientific methods – descriptive, systemic, structural-functional, comparative, institutional-comparative; general logical methods – empirical, statistical, prognostic modeling and analysis; special methods of political science. The preference was given to the method of political-system analysis, by which the common and distinctive characteristics of the basic components of soft power strategies were identified, reflecting existing political, public, information and other challenges for international relations and global development. Results. As societies develop from agrarian to industrial to knowledge-based, growing existential security tends to reduce the importance of religion in people's lives and people become less obedient to traditional religious leaders and institutions. Research of the problem by scientists. Religion is characterized by the historical predominance of Catholic Christianity (40 % of the world's Catholics in the region). Conclusions. Although some religious conservatives warn that the retreat from faith will lead to a collapse of social cohesion and public morality, the evidence doesn't support this claim. Surprising as it may seem, countries that are less religious actually tend to be less corrupt and have lower murder rates than religious ones.

THREATS TO THE SECURITY AS THE RELIGIOUS CHALLENGE OF THE POLITICAL STABILITY IN LATIN AMERICA

2020 ◽  
pp. 192-202
Author(s):  
Oleh Tkach
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
Religious Associations

The article examines the problems of the component s of the concept of threats to religious security, for example, which are transformed into concepts. Religion as a relatively independent socio-cultural reality needs protection from internal and external threats. Religious security is a system of conditions that ensures the preservation of the traditional religious system within the established norm that has historically developed. The problem of religious security was identified when the cases of anti-state, anti-social activities of religious associations became more frequent. The preference was given to the method of political-system analysis, by which the common and distinctive characteristics of the basic components of soft power strategies were identified, reflecting existing political, public, information and other challenges for international relations and global development. Research of the problem by scientists. Religion in Latin America is characterized by the historical predominance of Catholic Christianity (40% of the world’s Catholics in the region), the growing level of Protestant influence, the presence of world religious. 69% of the population of Latin America are Catholics, 17% Protestants. Pentecost, Anglicanism as movements involve the middle class. The threat to religious security is that Latin America, as one of the centers of Catholicism in the world, is facing a huge ideological choice. On the one hand, it may return to the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church.

scholarly journals Affecting migration: Public information campaigns and the intimate spatialities of border enforcement

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1198-1215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill M Williams
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Border Enforcement ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Information Campaigns ◽  
Feminist Geopolitics ◽  
Hard Power ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
Depth Interviews

A broad body of research has examined the shifting spatialities of contemporary border enforcement efforts, drawing particular attention to how border enforcement efforts increasingly take place away from the territorial edges of border enforcing states. However, existing research largely focuses on border enforcement efforts that mobilize strategies of militarization, securitization, and criminalization. In response, this paper draws on work in the fields of emotional and feminist geopolitics, to broaden understandings of the sites, modalities, and spatialities of border governance. Drawing on in-depth interviews, archival research, and discourse analysis, this paper examines public information campaigns launched by US border enforcement agencies between 1990 and 2012. In doing so, I show how these campaigns aim to affect migrant decision-making and reduce unauthorized migration by circulating strategically crafted messages and images into the intimate spaces of everyday life where potential migrants and their loved ones live and socialize. Unlike the hard power strategies of militarized borders and migrant criminalization, public information campaigns work as soft-power tools of governance that target the emotional registers of viewers and both respond to and counter particular gender ideologies. As this analysis suggests, understanding the full complexity of contemporary border governance requires that we broaden the scope of analysis beyond the hard power strategies of militarization, securitization, and criminalization to examine the softer side of border governance, a project that the insights of feminist political geography are particularly well suited for.

The Complex System Modeling and Analysis on the Government Public Information Resource Allocation Mechanism

2011 ◽  
Vol 219-220 ◽  
pp. 980-985
Author(s):  
Wei Qiang Jia ◽  
You Fang Huang ◽  
Yun Zhu Wang ◽  
Ping Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
System Modeling ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Allocation Mechanism ◽  
Modeling And Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Resource Allocation Mechanism

Based on the system analysis on the Government Public Information Resource Allocation Mechanism, this paper utilizes the Rate-Variable Fundamental In-tree Modeling method, establishes the structure model effectively depicting the Public Information Resource Allocation Mechanism. Utilizing the X-0-1 determinant feedback archetype calculating method put forward by the author, this paper calculates the system minimal based model set, through the analysis on the minimal based model, generates the corresponding management countermeasures perfecting the Public Information Resource Allocation Mechanism and realizes the purpose of analyzing Public Information Resource Allocation Mechanism effectively utilizing system science method.

The Key Components of South Korea’s Soft Power: Challenges and Trends

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-286
Author(s):  
Agapi E. Matosian
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Korean Wave ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
The Republic

To this day political processes are less and less impacted by military force. States are increasingly resorting to the use of means of latent influence or relying on cultural attraction. Such phenomena have led to the emergence of soft power in international relations. Many countries, including the Republic of Korea, effectively use soft power tools in implementing policies at various levels. This manuscript seeks to analyze the main soft power components and tools of the Republic of Korea in foreign policy. The paper examines the background of the formation and development of soft power strategies. Many factors have predetermined the growing popularity of Korean culture, a phenomenon subsequently called the Korean Wave (Hallyu). This paper identifies the main elements of the Hallyu, including public diplomacy and South Koreas cultural economy exporting pop culture, entertainment, music, TV dramas, and movies, and examines how these elements complement each other.

Making the Soft Power Hard: Nepal’s Internal Ability in Safeguarding National Interest

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pitambar Bhandari ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Political Transitions ◽  
Technology Governance ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Soft Power Diplomacy

Abstract Soft power is an important instrument of foreign policy and a tool in safeguarding national interests. Under various regimes after the advent of democracy in 1950, Nepal has experienced a turbulent effect of international influence on technology, governance capability, policy transfer, labor migration and climatic affairs. In these contexts, traditional diplomatic effort based on persuasive bargaining requires an interest based practice which is complicated for the countries like Nepal where military power and economy are considered to be public goods rather than strategic base for the expansion of domestic policy making the other countries follow. Nepal creates an exemplary image in coping with the internal and external threats even during the major political transitions in 1950, 1990 and 2006. In all these power sharing mechanisms, the immunity that galvanized internal forces with minimum experience of indirect influence from the neighbouring countries shows that soft power values in Nepal became the major component for managing internal tensions and mitigating external interests. At one hand, the sources of soft power rests on ancient value system and on the other, Nepal celebrates new political system confronting the values earlier regime survived on. Political crisis before 2015 and the natural disaster after it plunged Nepal into a serious threat. During the time of crisis it is need and the value that functions compared to the interest. This paper posits a central question that how soft power became a variant during the war to peace transition from 2006 to the period of implementation of constitution stipulated in 2015 with the result of a stable government. The first part of the paper explores the dimensions of soft power in Nepal- both perceived and practiced- after Jana Aandolan II. The effectiveness of soft power in maintaining the geostrategic importance through a constant coupling of soft power diplomacy adopted and endorsed in Nepal by the external powers and Nepal’s own soft power standpoint will be analyzed in the second part of the paper. The last section of the paper analyzes the challenges for effective implementation of soft power diplomacy in meeting the national interest. Key words: Soft power, geo-strategic importance, national interest

scholarly journals Development of discurcive power strategies in political space of Dnipro

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Nadiya Mikhno
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Analytical Strategy ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
Voluntary Choice

The article deals with defining the characteristics of the authority discourse development in modern society. The localization of the urban area has been chosen as the field of the authority discursive power strategies development. The author's scheme of authority discourse analysis in the urban area has been suggested basing on the methodological principles of a discourse-analytical strategy and involving the heuristic potential of a socio-cultural and semiotic analysis, as a result of the specific empirical study. The analysis of theoretical frames for the study of the concepts of «discourse» and «authority» has made it possible to determine a variety of communicative actions, which subject can only be the authority – an institutional discourse, namely, a political perspective. It is proposed to define a political discourse as a set of all speech acts in the appropriate institutional atmosphere, which is implemented in both oral and written forms within this study. The consideration of the background, expectations of the author and the audience, hidden motives, plot schemes etc. are provided in this article. It has been noted that it is appropriate to use the categorization approach to the «soft power» concept, which proposes to consider the power as the one which is implemented in the form of a certain communicative action. The behavior dictated by the authorities is perceived by a recipient as a voluntary choice during its relization. Such categories of the investigation as cultural mechanisms of nomination, classification, legitimation and naturalization are stressed analysing a political discourse in an urban area. The author's matrix of the analysis of the authority discourse in the urban area which includes its strategies, grammatology, idioms and the nature of their projection in discursive strategies of main subjects of discourse development has been described.

scholarly journals Media education as counterpoint to the devastation of public information in Serbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Nada Torlak ◽  
Momčilo Jokić
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The Media ◽  
Time Changes ◽  
Post Industrial

In modern information and IT society, creativity is elevated to a pedestal as a condition for market success, but also survival. In other words, in post-industrial production, or the entire economy, and certainly media companies, which of course operate according to market principles and are based on information, creativity is the most wanted commodity. In the modern knowledge society, there has been a strong affirmation of the phenomenon of cultural, that is, creative industries that have great importance for the economic, social, political and general development of society. At the same time, changes in the economic, technological and cultural spheres have strongly influenced changes in the media, as an important creative industry. This means that media products (information, videos, pics) and the media are industry, not only because of the rating criteria which dictate the direction of business but also because it is about mass production and consumers. Creativity is an important strategic resource for increasing competitiveness in a knowledge-based economy. However, media policy does not encourage the systematic promotion of creativity. Consumerist entertainment industry suppresses and marginalizes authentic, creative cultural practices, replacing them with pseudo-cultural contests. The integration of theoretical knowledge and education into the Serbian media sphere is practically at the zero points with recurrences that seriously undermine the overall development, application of knowledge, modern technological achievements, and the affirmation of democracy and freedom as the basic precondition for the overall prosperity of society.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Luis G. Martínez del Campo
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Western World ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

In this chapter, I link the creation of the British-Spanish Society (BSS) and the development of soft power strategies in the Western World. I also put the history of the BSS in the context of British-Spanish relations in the 20th Century. Finally, I describe the BSS as one example of those institutions involved in the cultural side of foreign policy.

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