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& Littlefield, 2005.
Feklyunina, Valentina. “Soft Power And Identity: Russia, Ukraine and the “Russian world(s).” European Journal of
International Relations 22, no. 4 (2015): 1-24.
Ferguson, Chaka. “The Strategic Use of Soft Balancing: The Normative Dimensions of the Chinese-Russian
Strategic Partnership.” Journal of Strategic Studies 35, no. 2 (2012): 197-222.
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and Post-Communist Studies 47, no. 3 (2014): 323-31.
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Relations 22, no. 4 (2016): 797-822.
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A Journal of Comparative and International Education 46, no. 4 (2016): 512-32.
Marlene Laurelle. “The Russian World.” International Affairs 55, no. 1 (2015): 116-22.
Nicolaïdis, Kalypso, Richard G. Whitman, and Emilian Kavalski. “The Struggle for Recognition of Normative
Powers: Normative power Europe and normative power China in context.” Cooperation and Conflict 48, no. 2
(2013): 247-67.
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University Press 2014..
Stuenkel, Oliver. Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order. Cambridge: Polity
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Tafuro Ambrosetti, E. “Building a Sphere of Influence in Their Neighbourhood: The Soft Power of Turkey and
Russia.” PRIMO Working Papers Series 5, January 2017, Hamburg.
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