BISA 2026 Conference

Soft Power and Discursive Competition

WE03

3 Jun 2026, 15:00

1h 30m

Panel East Europe and Eurasian Security Working Group

Description

This is a panel on Soft Power and Discursive Competition

Subcontributions

• Digital Soldiers: Western Veterans, Bloggers, and the Appeal of Russian Soft Power
• Selective Threats: Russian Academic Narratives of NATO in the Baltic, Ukrainian, and Nordic Contexts (1991–2024)
• COVID-19 Vaccine Competition as Revisionist Soft Power: Perspectives from Central Asia
• 'We are Russian! God is with us!' - How non-state discourses of Russian nationalism(s) have been (re)produced in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022
• Destination Russia? International Higher Education Mobility as a Source and an Indicator of Soft Power