The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power

ISBN-13: 9781032039268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 448 str.

Naren Chitty; Lilian Ji; Gary D. Rawnsley

Opis

The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power (second edition) offers a comprehensive, detailed, and ground-breaking examination of soft power – a key factor in cultural diplomacy, cultural relations, and public diplomacy.  Interrogating soft power as influence the handbook examines manifestations in media, public mind, policy and theory - in a fraught geopolitical climate, one demanding reconceptualization of soft power’s role in state and civic society behaviour. 

 
• Part One provides important new conceptualization and critical analysis of soft power from international relations, philosophical and other social theoretical perspectives; analyses multiple methods of soft power measurement and makes proposals; connects soft power innovatively with other concepts.
• Part Two addresses soft power and contemporary issues; examining new technology and soft power intentions, soft power and states’ performance during the global pandemic; and soft power and values. 
• Part Three investigates cases from China, France, Greece, Israel, Japan, Kazhakstan, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Türkiye, and USA – some in combination.

This innovative handbook is a definitive resource for inquirers into soft power desiring to familiarize themselves with cutting-edge debates and research. It will be of interest and value to students, researchers and policy makers working in cultural relations, international communication, international relations, public diplomacy, and contiguous fields.

Spis treści

PART I Theoretical Perspectives  1. Taking A Measure of Attraction-Based Influence (Part One Overview)  2. An Experiential Theory of Attraction-Based Influence (Unintended and Intended)  3. The Gift of Grace: Soft Power, Charisma, and Transatlantic Relations  4. Taking A Soft Power Approach to Cultural Heritage Protection: Toward An Empirical Methodology  5. Tools for Measuring Soft Power: A Review of Recent Quantitative Analyses  6. Measuring Soft Power  7. Challenges of A Big Data Approach in Mapping Soft Power  8. Hybridity, Soft Power and Statecraft: Ontological Mapping  9. The Use of The Soft Power Concept in Empirical Studies  10. The Soft Power of International Education: A Theoretical Framework  11. Science Communication as Soft Power  12. Production and Consumption of Academic Knowledge: The Rising and Expansion of The ‘Soft Power’ Concept (1989-2020)  13. A Study of Soft Power Rankings: Concepts, Method(ology), and Evaluation  PART II Contemporary Issues  14. Contemporary Issues (Part Two Overview)  15. Pandemic Soft Power: A Civic Virtue in The Context Of COVID-19  16. Assaying Experience of Soft Power: CALD Community Narratives in New South Wales in COVID-19 Pandemic Times  17. The Jury Is In? The Impact of Domestic and Global Responses to The COVID-19 Health Crisis On Soft Power of The US, China And Germany (2020-2021)  18. States Vs. Tech Giants: Who Is Wielding Soft Power? Soft Power in The Age Of Online Platforms  19. On The Soft Power of Values: The ‘Scotland Is Now’ Campaign  20. Large-Scale Events and Soft Power: Reconfiguration and Continuity in Light Of The COVID-19 Pandemic  PART III Cases from across the Globe  21. Cases from Around The World (Part Three Overview)  22. It’s A MAD World: How Diplomats’ Online Framing of Crises Results In Mutually Assured De-Legitimization  23. An Analysis Of South Korea’s Civic Virtue Soft Power  24. Soft power of First Ladies: Case studies of France and Poland  25. Private cultural foundations as actors of soft power in times of austerity  26. The Role of Film Auteurism Within The Mechanisms of Soft Power In Spain –
Carlos Saura As A Representative Of Spanish Culture Abroad  27. Does Soft Power Make Authoritarian Regimes Import Universities? Framing Analysis Of Discourses Around Transnational Higher Education Institutions In Kazakhstan  28. Explaining China’s Soft Power In Türkiye  29. Soft Power In Dark Collective Memory: The Case Of Japanese War Museums  30. Understanding Chinese Philosemitism: Judaism And Israel As Soft Power In Contemporary China