Understanding Public Diplomacy in East Asia

Jan Melissen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael in The Hague and Professor of Diplomacy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.  Yul Sohn is a Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University, Korea. 

1. Introduction .- 2. Regionalization, Regionalism, and Double-Edged Public Diplomacy in East Asia .- 3. Soft Power and the Recalibration of Middle Powers: Comparing South Korea as an East Asian Leader with Canada as the Exemplar of the Traditional Model .- 4. Public Diplomacy, Rising Power, and China’s Strategy in East Asia .- 5. The Evolution of Japan’s Public Diplomacy: Haunted by its Past History .- 6. South Korea’s Middle Power Activism and the Retooling of its Public Diplomacy .- 7. Indonesia’s Middle Power Public Diplomacy: Asia and Beyond .- 8. Thinking East Asia, Acting Local: Constraints, Challenges, and Contradictions in Indian Public Diplomacy .- 9. Public Diplomacy and Australia’s Middle Power Strategy in East Asia .- 10. US Public Diplomacy: A Model for Public Diplomacy Strategy in East Asia? .- 11. Conclusions and Key Points about Public Diplomacy in East Asia.