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Education scholarships: who needs them? - Episode 5

Statecraftiness - Investigating Influence in the Pacific

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Portugal's Soft Power Currency

Adarito: Portugal's role is integral in what Adarito called the inner spiritual domain of Timor Leste and it gives Portugal a strong, soft power currency for keeping influence. English speaking advisors would always fulminate about how Portuguese advisors were more embedded in terms of influencing the government. If you compare Portugal with the immediate neighbor of like Indonesia and Australia in Portugal lack of economic influence in Timor, but I think they played this very strong,soft power through education, culture, tradition, religions.

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