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Nation Branding and International Politics / Christopher S. Browning.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Browning, Christopher S., 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Branding (Marketing)--Political aspects.
- Branding (Marketing).
- National characteristics--Political aspects.
- National characteristics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Nation branding is regarded as essential for competitiveness among countries, but the idea of branding nations is often derided as lacking seriousness. While nation branding has been on the radar of scholars of marketing, communication, and media studies, as well as political geography for decades, it has only made a small dent into the international relations field. In Nation Branding and International Politics Christopher Browning argues that international relations should take nation branding seriously. Nation branding not only involves the issues of culture, identity, and status - which are of principal concern to IR - but it is also a different and potentially fruitful way of reconceptualizing statehood. Mobilizing work on ontological security, anxiety, status, and distinction, and grounding the analysis in a broader historical context, Browning finds that nation branding is politically significant, though not necessarily for the reasons its advocates claim. Specifically, the book raises important questions about nation branding's influence on the constitution of national identity, the reframing of citizenship, and the topography of contemporary geopolitics. Nation Branding and International Politics considers how status, prestige, and reputation are constructed and maintained in international society, and how, perhaps, this construction and maintenance may be changing - just as the practice of nation branding is changing.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Brand(ing) States
- Competition States
- Anxious States
- Good States
- Peaceful States
- Stigmatised States
- Nation Branding and the Remaking of International Politics?
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780228019459 (electronic book)
- OCLC:
- 1378793497
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