1st Edition

Alternative Paths to Influence Soft Power and International Politics

Edited By Giulio M. Gallarotti Copyright 2023
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers new and cutting-edge analyses of under-explored subjects and issues in the realm of soft power. It attempts to fill significant scholarly gaps in understanding the process by which soft power is created, as well as gaps in demonstrating its impact. Soft power is one of the most influential ideas in the study of international politics over the past thirty years. Can nations... Read more

Introduction—Esteem and influence: soft power in international politics

Giulio M. Gallarotti

1. The crisis of American soft power

David W. Kearn

2. The Smithsonian’s soft power: how foreigners engage the US national museum

Irene S. Wu

3. Soft power’s dark side

Renée Marlin-Bennett

4. From circulating liberalism to tech nationalism: U.S. soft power and Silicon Valley

Burcu Baykurt

5. The impact of Russian soft power in Kazakhstan: creating an enabling environment for cooperation between Nur-Sultan and Moscow

Victoria Hudson

6. Pedagogical offensives: soft power, higher education and foreign policy

Giulio M. Gallarotti

7. Impact of environmental quality indicators on soft power: a few empirical estimates

Sergio R. Vale and Moises S. Marques

8. Testing the impact of geopolitics on European democratic countries’ soft power use

Judit Trunkos

9. In search of soft power: mapping the expert community with a bibliometric network analysis

Alina V. Vladimirova

Biography

Giulio M. Gallarotti is Professor of Government and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, New York City, USA. He is Chairman of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) Research Committee on Political Power (RC 36) and editor of the book series on Social and Political Power at Manchester University Press, UK.

“Power is one of the most contested concepts in social science. Giulio Gallarotti has again served the field well by assembling and editing a set of first rate essays on the role of soft power in international politics.”
Joseph Nye, Harvard University, USA

"This compelling book brings the multifaceted and spirited expertise of its collaborators to capturing the uses and abuses of soft power from the perspective of the geopolitics of the New Cold War."
Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University, USA