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Free Expression, Globalism, and the New Strategic Communication
New York: Cambridge University Press (2015), ix, 275 pp.
"Vast changes in technologies and geopolitics have produced a wholesale shift in the way states and other powerful entities think about the production and retention of popular loyalties. Strategic communication has embraced these changes as stakes increase and the techniques of information managemen
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Radio im interkulturellen Dialog
Stuttgart; Berlin: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2014), 29 pp.
"Nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer und dem Ende der Sowjetunion musste der Auslandsrundfunk sich neu orientieren. In der Außen- und Entwicklungspolitik sind Kultur und Medien zunehmend als wichtige Faktoren für die Gestaltung auswärtiger Beziehungen und internationaler Entwicklungszusammenarbeit e
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Chinese Soft Power and Public Diplomacy: An Analysis of China’s New Diaspora Engagement Policies in the Xi Era
Seoul: East Asia Institute (EAI) (2014), 22 pp.
"The communist government’s diaspora engagement policy in the Xi era represents a departure from tradition. Not only is it a very non-ideological policy, but it is also based on Xi’s vision of public diplomacy— indigenizing public diplomacy approaches and instruments to accommodate the needs a
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Front Line Public Diplomacy: How US Embassies Communicate with Foreign Publics
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 276 pp.
"This book is about public diplomacy as it is practiced by American diplomats at US embassies around the world. The focus is intentionally on field operations, since that is an aspect of public diplomacy that has been neglected in the literature. The book shows how American diplomats cope with the c
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„Soft Power“ und Imagepflege aus Moskau: Leichtes Spiel für PR-Offensive in der Medienkrise
Deep Insights
Osteuropa, volume 64, issue 1 (2014), pp. 63-88
"Russland versucht seit Jahren, sein Image zu verbessern. Für dieses Ziel werden Auslandsmedien ausgebaut und PR-Firmen beauftragt. Aber es fehlt eine Gesamtstrategie und das Grundverständnis, wie demokratische Öffentlichkeit funktioniert. Trotz teilweiser Erfolge wird Moskau ohne einen politisch
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Qatar Between Marketing and Realpolitik
KAS International Reports, issue 1 (2014), pp. 83-102
"Qatar remains a vulnerable micro-state wedged between its large neighbours, Saudi Arabia and Iran. In the long-term this cannot be gilded by its smart advertising strategy. Long-term success can only be achieved with a labour market that is not dependent on gas revenues and a qualified local workfo
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The Last Gasp of Empire: Russia’s Attempts to Control the Media in the Former Soviet Republics
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 36 pp.
"Russia still aspires to influence the news media in the former Soviet republics. The objective appears to be to manipulate their media environments in order to promote dependence on Russia and distrust of the West and to help Russia to pursue its political and commercial objectives–such as persua
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Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xi, 285 pp.
"Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring brings together some of the most celebrated and respected names in Arab media research to reflect on the communication conditions that preceded and made the Arab uprisings possible." (Publisher description)
De-Americanizing Soft Power Discourse?
Los Angeles: USC Center on Public Diplomacy; Figueroa Press (2014), 31 pp.
Der Nahostkonflikt und die Medien
Norderstedt: Books on Demand (2014), 252 pp.
"Der vorliegende Band enthält sieben Studien, die sich in empirischen Analysen mit verschiedenen Facetten der Rolle von Medien im Nahostkonflikt auseinandersetzen. Dabei wird zum einen analysiert, wie über den Nahostkonflikt kommuniziert wird. Hier stehen die Selbstbilder von Auslandskorrespondent
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China in Africa: Soft Power, Media Perceptions and a Pan-Developing Identity
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (2013), 17 pp.
"China is currently implementing a full-fledged ‘Going Global’ strategy, particularly in Africa. Chinese engagement on the continent is all pervasive and spearheaded by summit conferences and flanked by a surge of Chinese state-own media houses and state-funded cultural institutions. This report
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Diplomacy, Development and Security in the Information Age
Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (2013), v, 142 pp.
"[...] This series thus proposes to unpack the concepts of transparency and volatility across three major arenas of international affairs: security, diplomacy, and development. Each issue-area features two essays, each focusing on different aspects of transparency and/or volatility. Two additional e
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Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 Transition: Lessons from the United States and the Netherlands
The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2013), 25 pp.
"The end of the security transition process in Afghanistan in 2014 marks the need to rethink foreign public diplomacy efforts in the country. As Afghanistan is entering its ‘transformational decade’, there is a unique opportunity to disconnect public diplomacy from the military–security paradi
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Reporting China in Africa
African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 3 (2013), pp. 1-160
Religion and Public Diplomacy
New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), x, 224 pp.
"Mixing religion and public diplomacy can produce volatile results, but in a world in which the dissemination and influence of religious beliefs are enhanced by new communications technologies, religion is a factor in many foreign policy issues and must be addressed. Faith is such a powerful part of
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The Role of Public Sentiment and Social Media in the Evolving China-Africa Relationship
Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2013), 24 pp.
"The demands of public diplomacy have shifted with the development of social media technologies. Increasingly, governments are required to gauge and respond to public sentiment over and above the one-way communication of broadcast media. The social media and accompanying elevated public role have co
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Communicating India's Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), 227 pp.
"Daya Thussu's book rescues the concept of soft power from American hands and applies it insightfully to India, and the concept is made richer and more useful as a result. With its dynamic and prosperous diaspora, the growing global popularity of its spiritual beliefs and practice, its reach as a gl
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The World News Prism: Challenges of Digital Communication
Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 8th ed. (2012), xi, 249 pp.
Differing Paradigms of Media Systems Development in Contemporary Africa: Does the ‘Chinese Model’ Have a Place?
Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 52-67
"This article addresses the emerging patterns of contemporary media-based engagements between China and Africa and argues, after an examination of current media systems in both China and Africa, that, despite expressed worries to the contrary, because of reasons spanning from history to geo-politics
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