The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power 2nd Edition by Naren Chitty, Lilian Ji, Gary D Rawnsley ISBN 9781003189756 100318975X

Part I Theoretical perspectives

1 Taking a measure of attraction-based influence (Part I overview)

2 An experiential theory of attraction-based influence (unintended and intended)

3 The gift of grace: soft power, charisma, and transatlantic relations

4 Taking a soft power approach to cultural heritage protection: toward an empirical methodology

5 Tools for measuring soft power: a review of recent quantitative analyses

6 Measuring soft power

7 Challenges of big data approaches in mapping soft power

8 Hybridity, soft power, and statecraft: ontological mapping

9 The use of the soft power concept in empirical studies

10 The soft power of international education: a theoretical framework

11 Science communication as soft power

12 Production and consumption of academic knowledge: the rising and expansion of the ‘soft power’ concept (1989–2020)

13 A study of soft power rankings: concepts, method(ology), and evaluation

Part II Contemporary issues

14 Soft power and contemporary issues (Part II overview)

15 Pandemic soft power: a civic virtue in the context of COVID-19

16 Assaying experience of soft power: CALD community narratives in New South Wales in COVID-19 pandemic times

17 The jury is in? The impact of domestic and global responses to the COVID health crisis on soft power of the United States, China, and Germany (2020–2021)

18 States vs. tech giants: who is wielding soft power? Soft power in the age of online platforms

19 On the soft power of values: the ‘Scotland is Now’ campaign

20 Large-scale events and soft power: reconfiguration and continuity in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

Part III Cases from across the globe

21 Cases from around the world (Part III overview)

22 It’s a MAD world: how diplomats’ online framing of crises result in mutually assured delegitimization

23 An analysis of South Korea’s civic virtue soft power

24 Soft power of First Ladies: case studies of France and Poland

25 Private cultural foundations as actors of soft power in times of austerity

26 The role of film auteurism within the mechanisms of soft power in Spain – Carlos Saura as a representative of Spanish culture abroad

27 Does soft power make authoritarian regimes import universities? Framing analysis of discourses around transnational higher education institutions in Kazakhstan

28 Explaining China’s soft power in Türkiye

29 Soft power in dark collective memory: the case of Japanese war museums

30 Understanding Chinese philosemitism: Judaism and Israel as soft power in contemporary China

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