19 min
#6: Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti on Russian Soft Power GDL Coffee Break Podcast
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In this episode, host Khaldun Al Saadi talks to GDL Member Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti. She is currently working as a research fellow at the Russia, Causasus, and Central Asia Centre at ISPI (Italian Institute For International Political Studies). Prior to working at the ISPI, she completed her PhD at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, and is a Marie Curie Fellow.
In her field of work, Eleonora is focusing on Russian Foreign Policy and Soft Power, EU-Russia and Russia-Turkey relations as well as EU neighbourhood policies. Just recently, she published a paper on Russian Soft Power Sources at the South African Institute of International Affairs that you can find here.
Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine has drawn a lot of international attention and has impacted Eleonora’s field of work profoundly. Naturally, Russia’s usage of Soft Power seems to play a critical role during this time. It uses narratives that construct an attractive image of itself towards other countries and social groups. That image mainly involves anti-Westernism and Russia as a conservative and alternative pole of power. Eleanora explains that one of Russia’s main goals is to promote its influence, especially in countries that already show anti-American tendencies, while simultaneously exploiting its social differences to the West.
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In this episode, host Khaldun Al Saadi talks to GDL Member Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti. She is currently working as a research fellow at the Russia, Causasus, and Central Asia Centre at ISPI (Italian Institute For International Political Studies). Prior to working at the ISPI, she completed her PhD at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, and is a Marie Curie Fellow.
In her field of work, Eleonora is focusing on Russian Foreign Policy and Soft Power, EU-Russia and Russia-Turkey relations as well as EU neighbourhood policies. Just recently, she published a paper on Russian Soft Power Sources at the South African Institute of International Affairs that you can find here.
Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine has drawn a lot of international attention and has impacted Eleonora’s field of work profoundly. Naturally, Russia’s usage of Soft Power seems to play a critical role during this time. It uses narratives that construct an attractive image of itself towards other countries and social groups. That image mainly involves anti-Westernism and Russia as a conservative and alternative pole of power. Eleanora explains that one of Russia’s main goals is to promote its influence, especially in countries that already show anti-American tendencies, while simultaneously exploiting its social differences to the West.
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn
19 min