Valdai Club

Anna Barsukova

Andrey Bystritskiy

Anatoly Bazhan

Julien Barnes-Dacey

Boyan Bilbia

Svetlana Babayeva

Xu Bo

Yvan Blot

Vladimir Bartenev

Iwona Borkowska

Poland

Head of the Centre for International Education, Adam Miczkiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.

Materials

Universities as Actors and Instruments in Diplomacy

“Battleships like those of the first decade of the 20th century” – some political leaders speak openly about the function of today’s world class universities, as indicators of national power and prestige.

Universities as Actors and Instruments in Diplomacy. The Academic Soft Power Potential

The eighth Valdai Paper examines one of the aspects of the state's soft power - higher education. The internationalization of universities - one of the phenomena of the recent decades - according to the authors is comparable to the growth of the military power of the early twentieth century.