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Author Chong, Alan (Alan Chia Siong)

Title Foreign policy in global information space : actualizing soft power / Alan Chong
Edition 1st ed
Published New York ; Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages)
Contents Introduction: Nation-state foreign policy amidst globalization -- Toward a changing environment for foreign policy: nation-state, globalization and information as political power -- Global information space, discursive community, and soft power -- Soft power in foreign policy -- Leadership in foreign policy, from inside-out and outside-in: Singaporean foreign policy and the Asian values debate, 1992-2000 -- The intermestic politics of foreign policy: Chilean foreign policy and the Pinochet extradition controversy, 1998-2000 -- Conclusion: Soft power foreign policy--creation spinning re-creation
Summary This book aims to explain how foreign policy can adapt to the challenge of globalization. Two central questions are posed to structure the argument: how can foreign policy defend or project statist political communities using soft power within a global information space, and does soft power, when exercised in turn by non-state actors, affect foreign policy by undermining statist community within the same global information space?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-235) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject International relations.
Globalization -- Political aspects
Nation-state and globalization.
Non-state actors (International relations)
Mass media and international relations.
Diplomacy.
Power (Social sciences)
international relations.
diplomacy.
International relations.
Globalization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
Politics and Government.
Diplomacy
Globalization -- Political aspects
International relations
Mass media and international relations
Nation-state and globalization
Non-state actors (International relations)
Power (Social sciences)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230604247
0230604242