Frances Yaping Wang

The Art of State Persuasion (eBook, ePUB)

China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Art of State Persuasion explores how authoritarian states like China use media to shape public opinion in foreign disputes. Unraveling the motivations and mechanics of these campaigns, the book theorizes that authoritarian states endeavor to synchronize public sentiment with their foreign policy, capitalizing on media's potential to either mobilize or, paradoxically, pacify. China uses aggressive rhetoric to mobilize if state policy is more hawkish than public opinion, and initiates "pacification campaigns" if the situation is the reverse. This study draws on rich firsthand interviews, archives, and computer-assisted text analysis of official Chinese media data in twenty-one Chinese diplomatic crises. Conversely, if public opinion is more hawkish than state policy, the authorities deploy a "pacification campaign" to mollify public sentiment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197757536
• Artikelnr.: 72267600

Autorenporträt

Frances Yaping Wang is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. She received her PhD in politics from the University of Virginia. She was previously an assistant professor at the Singapore Management University, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame's International Security Center, a Minerva-United State Institute of Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar, a predoctoral fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies of the George Washington University, and an editor/analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* List of Tables
* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations
* INTRODUCTION
* CHAPTER ONE
* The (Mis)Alignment Theory
* CHAPTER TWO
* The Chinese Propaganda System and Media Campaigns
* CHAPTER THREE
* The Sino-Vietnamese Border War - A Media Campaign to Mobilize
* CHAPTER FOUR
* The Sino-Philippines Arbitration on the South China Sea - A Media
Campaign to Pacify
* CHAPTER FIVE
* The Non-Barking Dog: The 2011 Sino-Vietnamese Cable Cutting Incidents
and The 2014 Oil Rig Crisis
* CHAPTER SIX
* Mobilization vs. Pacification: A Textual Analysis
* CHAPTER SEVEN
* Extending the Argument to Other Autocracies
* CONCLUSION
* Appendix I: Coding Rules
* Appendix II: Case Descriptions
* Appendix III: Borderline Media Campaigns
* Appendix IV: Deviant Cases
* Appendix V: Robustness Check Using the ANTUSD Dictionary
* Appendix VI: Fifty Most Frequent Words for Mobilization Campaigns and
Pacification Campaigns
* Bibliography
* Index