Communicating National Image through Development and Diplomacy

James Pamment is Associate Professor in Strategic Communication at Lund University, Sweden.Karin Wilkins is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: New Dimensions in the Politics of Image and Aid, James Pamment and Karin Gwinn Wilkins.- Chapter 2. Communication at the Crossroads of Development, Public Diplomacy & Soft Power, James Pamment.- Chapter 3. The Business of Bilateral Branding, Karin Gwinn Wilkins.- Chapter 4. Nation Branding, Neoliberal Development, and the Remaking of the Nation-State: Lessons from Post-War Kosovo, Nadia Kaneva. Chapter 5. Odd Bedfellows? U.S. Pub(l)ic Diplomacy, Colombian Industry Policy, and the Development of Sex Tourism in Cartagena, Olga Lucia & Toby Miller.- Chapter 6. Entitled to Benevolence? South Korea’s Government-Sponsored Volunteers as Public Diplomacy and Development Actors, Kyung Sun (Karen) Lee.- Chapter 7. The Slow Re-unification of Development Assistance and Public Diplomacy: Exchange and Collaboration Activities Through the Swedish Institute 1973–2012, Andreas Åkerlund.- Chapter 8. State-Civil Society Partnership in International Aid and Public Diplomacy: The Case of Turkey and Somalia, Senem B. Cevik, Efe Sevin, Banu Baybars Hawks.- Chapter 9. Communicating Mexico’s International Development Cooperation: An incipient Public Diplomacy strategy, Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard.- Chapter 10. Power Relations in Development Communication and Public Diplomacy: U.S. and Chinese Practices in Afghanistan, Di Wu.- Chapter 11. Ambivalent Perception of China’s “One Belt One Road” in Russia: “United Eurasia” Dream or “Metallic Band” of Containment?, Larisa Smirnova.- Chapter 12. Conclusion, Karin Gwinn Wilkins & James Pamment.