Foreign Policy in Global Information Space : Actualizing Soft Power / by A. Chong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chong, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Sociology.

Political science.

International Relations.

Political Science.

Foreign Policy.

Local Subjects:

International Relations.

Sociology.

Political Science.

Foreign Policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2007.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines how foreign policy can adapt to the challenge of globalization. Two central questions are posed:how can foreign policy defend or project statist political communities using soft power within a global information space? Does soft power affect foreign policy by undermining statist community within the same global information space?

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Nation-State Foreign Policy amidst Globalization; One: Toward a Changing Environment for Foreign Policy: Nation-State, Globalization, and Information as Political Power; Two: Global Information Space, Discursive Community, and Soft Power; Three: Soft Power in Foreign Policy; Four: Leadership in Foreign Policy, From Inside-Out and Outside-In: Singaporean Foreign Policy and the Asian Values Debate, 1992-2000

Five: The Intermestic Politics of Foreign Policy: Chilean Foreign Policy and the Pinochet Extradition Controversy, 1998-2000Conclusion: Soft Power Foreign Policy-Creation Spinning Re-Creation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611362812

9781281362810

1281362816

9780230604247

0230604242

OCLC:

314794011