Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace

Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and de‹ciency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself the enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency. (Ibn al-Haytham)1

국제정치이론 = Theory of international politics

The Future of Power

Charm offensive: how China's soft power is transforming the world

This study examines the role of the media in sustaining regime stability in an authoritarian context. The article engages the recent work on authoritarian resilience in comparative politics but goes beyond the standard focus on elections to other important institutions, such as the media and courts, that are used by authoritarian leaders to bolster legitimacy. The authors find that the Chinese media contribute to regime legitimacy and effective rule by propagandizing citizens’ experiences in the legal system. However, unlike the “mouthpieces” of earlier communist regimes, the marketized Chinese media provide more convincing and sophisticated messages that continue to accord with state censorship demands while satisfying readers’ interest in real-life stories and problems. The “positive propaganda” and the relative uniformity of information sources because of state censorship lead aggrieved citizens to the law as a realm for dispute resolution and rights protection. Statistical analysis of a randomly sampl...

Remote Control: How the Media Sustain Authoritarian Rule in China:

China and Russia have devoted significant resources to developing their international broadcasting capacity as an instrument of public diplomacy. Focusing on CCTV-N (China) and RT (Russia), this article discusses the strategies each has developed to communicate with international audiences and further the foreign policy ambitions of policy makers in Beijing and Moscow. It highlights the differences between the two stations – namely CCTV-N's ambition to rectify perceived distortions in the global flow of news about China, and RT's focus on reporting events in the US. Hence the case studies expose the fine line between propaganda and public diplomacy.

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To Know Us is to Love Us: Public Diplomacy and International Broadcasting in Contemporary Russia and China

The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power

This paper compares the soft power capital and public diplomacy strategies of Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. The premise is that Taiwan's international status and the absence of formal diplomatic recognition by major powers are a serious constraint on Taiwan's ability engage in meaningful outreach with the global community. The focus of the discussion is a paradox: Taiwan should be more successful at soft power since it is the personification of political values which should make it attractive to the liberal-democratic world; and yet the People's Republic of China – an authoritarian regime – is attracting far more attention and seems to possess and exercise far more soft power capital than Taiwan. This suggests that measurements of hard power and the models advanced by traditional approaches to international relations are more convincing ways to understand Taiwan's present predicament and its soft power. However, current strategies – operationalised by both Taiwan and the PRC – enjoy ...

Approaches to soft power and public diplomacy in China and Taiwan

Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - Radio Diplomacy and Propaganda - The Suez Crisis, 1956 - The Hungarian Uprising, 1956 - The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 - The American Commitment to Vietnam - Conclusions - Bibliography - Index

Radio Diplomacy and Propaganda: The BBC and VOA in International Politics, 1956–64

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction A Brief International History of the Republic of China Diplomacy and Propaganda Diplomats, Propaganda and the Overseas Chinese Taiwan's International Media and Propaganda Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

Gary D. Rawnsley

Papers

To Know Us is to Love Us: Public Diplomacy and International Broadcasting in Contemporary Russia and China

The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power

Approaches to soft power and public diplomacy in China and Taiwan

Radio Diplomacy and Propaganda: The BBC and VOA in International Politics, 1956–64

Taiwan's Informal Diplomacy and Propaganda