"Soft Power,” Selfishness, or Altruism? Motivations and Satisfaction of US-based International Volunteers

Postcolonial critiques of international development organizations scrutinise their role in “soft power” public diplomacy, observing as symptomatic the partly self-serving motivations and naïve beliefs about the world of many volunteers. However, international volunteers are not necessarily influence...

The International Journal of Diversity in Education

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