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Understanding Public Diplomacy in East Asia

Middle Powers in a Troubled Region

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  • © 2015

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  1. Jan Melissen
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  2. Yul Sohn
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  • Offers a close look at diplomacy in Asia, the world’s fastest rising economic region but also one of the parts of the world with the greatest potential for conflict

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jan Melissen
    Pages 1-9

  3. Regionalization, Regionalism, and Double-Edged Public Diplomacy in East Asia

    • Yul Sohn
    Pages 11-30

  4. Soft Power and the Recalibration of Middle Powers: South Korea as an East Asian Leader and Canada as the Exemplar of the Traditional Model

    • Andrew F. Cooper
    Pages 31-50

  5. Public Diplomacy, Rising Power, and China’s Strategy in East Asia

    • Kejin Zhao
    Pages 51-77

  6. The Evolution of Japan’s Public Diplomacy: Haunted by Its Past History

    • Yoshihide Soeya
    Pages 79-105

  7. South Korea’s Middle Power Activism and the Retooling of Its Public Diplomacy

    • Sook Jong Lee
    Pages 107-129

  8. Indonesia’s Middle Power Public Diplomacy: Asia and Beyond

    • Azyumardi Azra
    Pages 131-154

  9. Thinking East Asia, Acting Local: Constraints, Challenges, and Contradictions in Indian Public Diplomacy

    • Jabin T. Jacob
    Pages 155-178

  10. Public Diplomacy and Australia’s Middle Power Strategy in East Asia

    • Alexandra Oliver, Russell Trood
    Pages 179-209

  11. US Public Diplomacy: A Model for Public Diplomacy Strategy in East Asia?

    • Craig Hayden
    Pages 211-238

  12. Conclusions and Key Points about Public Diplomacy in East Asia

    • Jan Melissen
    Pages 239-252

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 253-283
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About this book

Set against the backdrop of tensions in East Asia, this book analyzes how East Asia's "new middle powers" and emerging powers employ public diplomacy as a key element of their foreign policy strategy and in so doing influence regional power dynamics. The volume brings together contributions from an international and influential group of scholars, who are leading debates on public diplomacy within East Asia. Where the study of public diplomacy has so far focused primarily on the West, the essays in this book highlight the distinct strategies of East Asian powers and demonstrate that understanding public diplomacy requires studying its strategies and practices outside as much as within the Western world. A focus on public diplomacy likewise gives us a more varied picture of state-to-state relations in East Asia.

Reviews

“This edited volume is comprehensive in both geographic scope and analytical breadth and, with several thematic chapters and six case studies, largely succeeds at its appointed task. … I enjoyed the diverse array of viewpoints and case studies offered by this volume. Individual chapters are clearly presented and well written, and the manuscript provides an informative and valuable starting point for both politics students and lays audiences interested in the use of public diplomacy in East Asia.” (Erin Zimmerman, Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Vol. 4 (2), September, 2017)

About the authors

Jan Melissen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael in The Hague and Professor of Diplomacy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. 

Yul Sohn is a Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University, Korea. 



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