title: Strategic Narratives of Public Diplomacy and the Enactment of Soft Power: An Exploratory Study
abstract: This dissertation investigated the formation, projection, and reception of strategic narratives with the purpose of exploring and explaining how and in what ways soft power can be enacted via strategic narratives. Specifically, utilizing Miskimmon et al.’s (2014) concept of strategic narratives, this dissertation analyzed strategic narratives of Russia to answer the research questions of this exploratory study. The dissertation consisted of three empirical studies. The first study executed a qua
journal: SHAREOK (University of Oklahoma)