{"id":32081,"date":"2021-06-11T09:18:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T13:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=32081"},"modified":"2021-06-14T09:43:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T13:43:30","slug":"new-rpi-working-paper-the-increasing-influence-of-russia-and-china-in-the-western-balkans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2021\/06\/11\/new-rpi-working-paper-the-increasing-influence-of-russia-and-china-in-the-western-balkans\/","title":{"rendered":"New RPI Working Paper: The Increasing Influence of Russia and China in the Western Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>A country\u2019s \u201csoft power\u201d rests primarily on three resources: its culture, its political values, and its foreign policies, but it cannot exist on its own. A discussion of China\u2019s or Russia\u2019s soft power in the Western Balkans is inseparable from discussions of their economic or military strength.<\/p>\n

In this Working Paper<\/a> from the Rising Powers Initiative (RPI)<\/a>, Vesko Gar\u010devi\u0107 discusses the growing influence and transformative power of Beijing and Moscow in the Western Balkans, particularly Serbia and Montenegro, and the implications for the European Union. The paper focuses on the main tools \u2013 economic, political, and cultural \u2013 which Russia and China use to establish themselves as viable and\/or even preferable alternatives to the EU.<\/p>\n

Vesko Gar\u010devi\u0107<\/a> is a Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies<\/a> at Boston University. He served as the Ambassador of Montenegro in Brussels (NATO) and Vienna (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe \u2013 OSCE and other International Organizations). He was a Montenegrin Ambassador to Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

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A country\u2019s \u201csoft power\u201d rests primarily on three resources: its culture, its political values, and its foreign policies, but it cannot exist on its own. A discussion of China\u2019s or Russia\u2019s soft power in the Western Balkans is inseparable from discussions of their economic or military strength. In this Working Paper from the Rising Powers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5469,60,5471],"tags":[5361,5391,5479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32081"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32087,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081\/revisions\/32087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}