Foreword / by Geoffrey Wiseman -- Introduction -- Media and the contest of ideas -- International broadcasting and its discursive properties -- Mobilising "softer" power in a hard world -- Australia's ABC: State interests, national evolution -- Purpose, performance and evaluation -- Modernising the ABC -- Policy, priorities and qualified independence -- Engaging with intercultural audiences -- Indonesia, the crucible -- Strategic contingency and war -- Looking to the new disorder
Summary
An insightful and timely reappraisal of international broadcasting as an instrument of discursive rather than 'soft' power and its contested role in Australia's Indo-Pacific regional statecraft.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Geoff Heriot is a former Australian broadcasting executive and strategist, a foreign correspondent and journalist, with extensive Indo-Pacific regional experience
