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Online-Ressource (329 p)
ISBN:
9780765622488
Inhalt:
The term ""soft power"" describes a country's ability to get what it wants by attracting rather than coercing others - by engaging hearts and minds through cultural and political values and foreign policies that other countries see as legitimate and conducive to their own interests.This book analyzes the soft power assets of the United States and Japan, and how they contributed to one of the most successful, if unlikely, bilateral relationships of the twentieth century. Sponsored by the U.S. Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership, the book brin
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Perception; 1. Anti-Americanism in Japan; 2. Japan's Image Problem and the Soft Power Solution: The JET Program as Cultural Diplomacy; Part II: Higher Education; 3. Higher Education as a Projection of America's Soft Power; 4. Facing Crisis: Soft Power and Japanese Education in a Global Context; 5. Nurturing Soft Power: The Impact of Japanese-U.S. University Exchanges; Part III. Popular Culture; 6. The Attractions of the J-Wave for American Youth
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7. Shared Memories: Japanese Pop Culture in China8. Japan's Creative Industries: Culture as a Source of Soft Power in the Industrial Sector; 9. Baseball in U.S.-Japanese Relations: A Vehicle of Soft Power in Historical Perspective; 10. American Pop Culture as Soft Power: Movies and Broadcasting; Part IV: Public Diplomacy; 11. Wielding Soft Power: The Key Stages of Transmission and Reception; 12. Official Soft Power in Practice: U.S. Public Diplomacy in Japan; 13. Japan Does Soft Power: Strategy and Effectiveness of Its Public Diplomacy in the United States; Part V: Civil Society
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14. Mr. Madison in the Twenty-first Century: Global Diffusion of the People's ""Right to Know""15. Soft Power of NGOs: Growing Influence Beyond National Boundaries; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781317459651
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780765622488
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Soft Power Superpowers
Sprache:
Englisch
