Purpose This paper presents research that sought to understand how the National Library of Australia engages with soft power in its Annual Report 2019–20. Driving analysis was question: How is discourse reproduced and enacted Australia's 2019–20? The recognises significance power, cultural diplomacy, regional relationships national interest context a library's contributions these areas. Design/...

Water diplomacy agents typically manage tensions between promoting peace and securing self-interest. This paper conducts a discourse analysis of commissioned policy report by leading Netherlands think-tank that helped inform Dutch on water diplomacy. We first establish the importance report. then identify its focus theme ‘neutral broker’ apply vocabulary analysis, argumentation metaphor togethe...

The article is devoted to the problem of development scientific diplomacy educational institutions by means creative cooperation. main task form image institution and interpersonal relations all participants in process substantiated. Attention paid communicative activity as a phenomenon creativity; theoretical content concepts "diplomacy", "communicative culture", "educational diplomacy" consid...

The theory of stability of multilayered continua is extended to include the effect of gravity and the case of viscoelastic materials. It is also applied to obtain numerical solutions for the buckling of the anisotropic plate in finite elasticity with free boundaries or embedded in an infinite medium. In the multilayered system it is shown that the effect of gravity forces may be included by a v...

Although “vaccine nationalism” and vaccine diplomacy have thus far typified the COVID-19 rollouts around globe, there remain limited scholarly insights on global distribution strategies. This research note (RN) examines strategies implications for public policy governments. In conceptualizing into three competing perspectives (i.e., nationalism,” diplomacy, initiative), this article highlights ...