Soft Power Beyond the Nation / Sylvia Dümmer Scheel, Charlotte Faucher, and Camila Gatica Mizala, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dummer Scheel, Sylvia.

Contributor:

Dümmer Scheel, Sylvia, 1979- editor.

Faucher, Charlotte, 1988- editor.

Gatica Mizala, Camila, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soft power (Political science).

International relations.

Cultural relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

2024.

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This edited volume takes a distinct approach to the study of soft power in history, moving beyond the framework of the nation-state. The editors of this volume use "soft power" as a broad label to refer to the processes through which persuasion, the search for influence and power, and public opinion as an actor in foreign affairs, converge in the international arena. The book has been organized around three central themes: the circulation of knowledge and strategies across borders; collaboration of intermediary actors who have their own agencies and interests; and non-national identities, such as gender and race. The book also broadens the typical temporal and geographic understanding of soft power, starting in the nineteenth century and including cases from the Global South. It argues that the pursuit of soft power has been a global phenomenon, including regions that have been neglected in the general debates on the subject, such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. These arguments and themes are explored through ten chapters that offer a powerful new interdisciplinary perspective on soft power for scholars and students of history and international relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Rethinking Soft Power in History through a Transnational and Pericentered Approach / Sylvia Dummer Scheel, Charlotte Faucher, and Camila Gatica Mizala

Race for Power : Science and the Creation of White Supremacy in the Nineteenth Century / Michael L. Krenn

Karuizawa and Naka Karuizawa : An Origin of Modern Hybrid Japanese Soft Power, "Omotenashi" / Rui Kohiyama

Refusing to be Soft on U.S. Racism : African Americans in the Soviet Union as Soft Power Agents of Black Liberation in the Interwar Era / Meredith L. Roman

Tensions between Soft Power and Domestic Propaganda : Public Diplomacy towards the Mexican Diaspora in the United States, 1934-1940 / Sylvia Dummer Scheel

A Universal Mission : The Propaganda and Folklore of Robert Boutet between Morocco and occupied Germany, 1931-49 / Drew Flanagan

Brigitte Bardot, Bikini Bodies, and the Bottom Line : Soft Power and the Creation of a Global French Feminine Ideal in the 1950s and 1960s / Kelly R. Colvin

Soft power or propaganda? China's "people-to-people" diplomacy during the Cold War / Cyril Cordoba

Honors and Dishonors : Table Tennis Champions Representing Ghana Abroad / Claire Nicolas

Non-Linear Cultural Diplomacy : A Latin American Traveler to China during the Cold War / Maria Montt Strabucchi

Art exhibitions under the Presidency of Leopold Sedar Senghor and the Construction of a Senegalese Soft Power : Metissage and Decentering / Coline Desportes

Conclusion / Sylvia Dummer Scheel, Charlotte Faucher, and Camila Gatica Mizala.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781647125004

1647125006

OCLC:

1430209515