Soft Power in the European Union’s Strategic Partnership Diplomacy: The Erasmus Plus Programme
| Autor: | João Mourato Pinto, Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Higher education
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Global strategy Public administration 16. Peace & justice 050601 international relations 0506 political science Politics Soft power Argument Political science 050602 political science & public administration media_common.cataloged_instance European union business Erasmus+ Diplomacy media_common |
| Zdroj: | The European Union's Strategic Partnerships ISBN: 9783030660604 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-66061-1_4 |
| Popis: | This chapter attempts to fill part of a gap in the literature by exploring the EU’s soft power in connection to the area of higher education and more specifically to the communities of alumni built around the Erasmus+ Programme. Its focus is on a ‘bottom up’ rather than the ‘top down’ view of the Strategic Partnerships (SP); and its underlying argument is about the persistence and even strengthening of the educational links and networks set against the stagnation and erosion of the SPs in the broader sense. For this reason, the chapter examines the life beyond summitry generated by the Erasmus+ Programme in the cases of Brazil and Russia, which are illustrative because since the outset their SPs with the EU included support for people-to-people connections based on academic exchanges with the goal of increasing mutual trust and understanding. This study’s conclusion points out the growing role of higher education in sustaining the EU’s relations with its strategic partners, especially those relations that have ended up ‘suspended’ and even ‘frozen’ at the highest political level as a result of a combination of exogenous and endogenous factors. |
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