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Soft Power
This book explores the phenomenon of soft power in international relations. In the context of current discourses on power and global power shift s, it puts forward a comprehensive taxonomy of soft power and outlines a methodological roadmap for its empirical study. To that end, the book classifies soft power into distinct components - resources, instruments, reception, and outcomes - and identifies relevant indicators for each of these categories. Moreover, the book integrates previously neglected aspects into the concept of soft power, including the significance of (political) personalities. A broad range of historical examples is drawn upon to illustrate the effects of soft power in intern...
Carbon Free
It’s now or never. The goal of achieving global climate neutrality is essential for ecological, economic and social reasons and requires immediate and decisive action from politicians and society. Carbon Free summarizes the building blocks we need to successfully manage the energy transition. Replete with international examples, the book’s first part explores the transformation of the energy markets, necessary accompanying redistributions, the often neglected issue of global population development, but also the ethical and political framework conditions under which the energy transition should take place. Part II deals with sector-specific topics including renewable energies, heat pumps,...
Understanding Soft Power in Africa
Negative images of Africa, which define the continent as being riven with poverty, crime, or war, are increasingly being challenged. Examples of soft power, such as Nigeria’s Nollywood, athletic successes in Kenya, Rwanda’s commercial diplomacy, and South Africa’s liberal constitution, are all reasserting African agency and shaping more positive understandings of the continent. This book considers the role and impact of soft power in the African context and how it relates to the 21st century scramble for Africa. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, this book delves into various aspects of soft power in Africa, shedding light on how the continent’s attractiveness is shaped...
Soft Power and Heritage
This book encourages a critical dialogue between interdisciplinary fields that border heritage boundaries and seeks to contribute a wide range of scholarly perspectives and case studies (both national and international). The widespread use of the concept of soft power is sometimes grossly misused as a synonym for anything other than military force. While the concept is one of the most popular and influential in progressive foreign policy circles and is noted for being the ability of a country to convince others that its cause is the best, without having to resort to economic or military threats, the your ability to accurately describe the world we live in needs repair lenses. The power of ex...
Religion and Global Politics
Religion and Global Politics: Soft Power in Nigeria and Beyond examines the deployment of religious soft power in African states and the potential it has for transforming perceptions of the continent. The contributors refocus the attention on religion away from the ‘misery’ discourse of conflict and violence towards the domain of international relations, diplomacy and foreign policy in Africa. Through this shift, the contributors analyze the ways in which religion has impacted the external relations of African states. Religion and Global Politics introduces the theme of religion to the discourse of African international relations and politics to provide a thorough examination of religion’s influence on politics in the daily lives of African people.
Religion as Brand
Religion as Brand: An Analogy to Reconceptualize Religion delves into the complex relationship between religions and brands. Through a process of abstraction, the book creates an analogy to compare religion with brand, which clarifies the similar functionalities of both within society and explores the complexities in this comparison beyond mere semiotic aspects. Through this innovative lens, it unveils the common mechanisms of both phenomena, and unveils fundamental incentives and needs in human-being nature that are evoked and fulfilled by these two social institutions.Across four diverse case studies, the book examines this analogy in real-world contexts and demonstrates how this approach can generate hypotheses. These cases explore diverse scenarios, including ISIS and Al-Qaeda as “sub-brands” of Islam, the dynamic of Islam and Judaism as “brands” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ashura ceremonies as a campaign for Shi'i Islam, and the narrativity of Evangelicalism as a sub-brand of Christianity. This thought-provoking exploration generates new hypotheses and challenges preconceived notions of both religion and brand.
Soft Power and Charismatic Leadership in German-American Relations
This book examines the origin, development, and significance of soft power and charismatic leadership in German-American relations. Using a comparative-historical approach that spans more than five centuries of transatlantic interaction, it identifies, traces, and explains the forces of attraction between Germany and the United States of America. Taking into account political, security, economic, cultural, and personal dimensions, the book offers a comprehensive history of German-American relations. The book is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the role of soft power in international affairs, outlines its mechanisms, and presents methodological approaches for its empirical a...
Soft power and the future of US foreign policy
This volume explores the role of soft power in US foreign policy past, present and future. It addresses vital issue areas – including terrorism threats, foreign economic policy and cultural diplomacy – as well as crucial bilateral relations – including Sino-American, Russian-American and transatlantic. In so doing, it offers an assessment of Joe Biden’s first year in office as well as future perspectives and recommendations regarding the role of soft power in US foreign policy. The book is an essential and unique resource for understanding how soft power informs US foreign policy and diplomatic practice today and how it will continue to do so in the years to come.
Macht und Machtverschiebung
Die Festschrift zu Ehren des 65. Geburtstages von Professor Xuewu Gu versammelt Beiträge zu zwei eng miteinander verwobenen Schlüsselphänomenen in den internationalen Beziehungen: Macht und Machtverschiebungen. Verschiedene Erscheinungsformen der Macht werden dabei ebenso berücksichtigt wie jüngste geopolitische Entwicklungen. Folglich wird theoretische Grundlagenforschung mit empirischen Untersuchungen zu einflussreichen Akteuren auf der internationalen Bühne kombiniert, insbesondere der Volksrepublik China, Russland, der Europäischen Union und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Der Band, der sich gleichermaßen an Studierende, Forschende und Praktiker/-innen internationaler Politi...
