{"product_id":"9783631732212","title":"Hard, Soft, and Smart Power - Education as a Power Resource (Dia-Logos)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis publication focuses on the power forms identified by Joseph Nye: hard, soft, and smart, and evaluates education as a resource of power. Education is a smart power resource since it has both hard and soft power characteristics. The study of Kazakhstan reveals international educational programs allow education to become a power resource.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the current global context, there is a shift in power paradigm from the rigid realpolitik perspective towards the inclusion of multiple faces of power. This publication focuses on the power forms identified by Joseph Nye: hard, soft, and smart, and evaluates education as a resource of power. Resource ambiguity is one of the key shortcomings of soft power theory. Education is a smart power resource since it has both hard and soft power characteristics. The case study of Kazakhstan reveals that international educational programs allow education to become a power resource.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePower in International Relations - Issues of Soft Power - Resources of Power: Hard, Soft, and Smart - Education as a Resource of Power - Case study of Kazakhstan - Education as a Power Resource in Kazakhstan - International Education\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAigerim Raimzhanova\u003c\/strong\u003e studied International Relations at the University of Rochester (NY, USA) and Management at the Regents University (London, UK). She has obtained a Ph.D degree from the University of Bucharest and the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42601602613323,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":1675.7,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/0023\/7387\/files\/9783631732212-1.jpg?v=1783507451","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9783631732212","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}