Sept. 23, 2024

Department of Defense Selects 2024-2025 Minerva-USIP Peace and Security Fellows

The Department of Defense and the U.S. Institute of Peace today announced fellowship awards to 19 graduate students to research questions in the fields of conflict management and peacebuilding.

Sept. 11, 2024

"How Russia employs ‘hard soft power’ to influence overseas media and sow dissent and fear among foreign populations"

Minerva-funded researchers, Catherine Luther and Brandon Prins highlight a new form of public diplomacy called "hard soft power," which combines traditional soft power (influence through cultural appeal) with subtle threats to create fear and division among foreign populations in their latest article.