Public Relations category: 887 books
by Tommy Koh, Rosario G Manalo, Walter Woon
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
On the historic occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2007, the leaders of the ten-member countries signed the ASEAN Charter. This is an important milestone for the regional group as the Charter will make ASEAN stronger, more united...
International Relations in the Post-Industrial Era
Rephrasing the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
The current emphasis on the greening of the world marks a beginning of a new concern for our relationship with our planet. This book states that we are entering into a new era - a transitional time in history in which the values of the industrial revolution are being replaced by a post-industrial consciousness.
Singapore's Foreign Policy
The Search for Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
The conventional understanding of Singapore's foreign policy can be summarized in three main propositions: first, it is dictated by the imperatives of being a small state; second, its primary purpose is to ensure Singapore's survival, given its small size; and third, this logic of survival dictates...
by Peter Clegg (Editor), Emilio Pantojas-García (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This edited volume brings together the perspectives of scholars and officials from Europe and the Caribbean to provide a much-needed international, comparative and interdisciplinary perspective on the status and performance of the non-independent territories in the Caribbean. The status of the non-independent...
Canada and the Middle East
In Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada’s...
Canadian Foreign Policy: 1945-2000
Major Documents and Speeches (Rideau Series #1)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Canada's role on the world stage has increased dramatically since the middle of the twentieth century. Once an offshoot of England, we have grown to become a recognized voice internationally.
Canadian Foreign Policy: 1945-2000 is a collection of key documents and speeches tracing the evolution...
The Rhetoric of Soft Power
Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides a comparative assessment of public diplomacy and strategic communication initiatives, in order to portray how Joseph Nye’s notion of “soft power” has translated into context-specific strategies of international influence....
Players in the Public Policy Process
Nonprofits as Social Capital and Agents
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This book carefully develops the perspective of nonprofit organizations as social capital assets and agents of public policy within a principal-agent framework. It shows the practical as well as managerial and marketing advantages of such an approach, one that can lead to serious questions about many...
China's Sent-Down Generation
Public Administration and the Legacies of Mao's Rustication Program
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
During China’s Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong’s "rustication program" resettled 17 million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the countryside for manual labor and socialist reeducation. This book, the most comprehensive study of the program to be published in either English or Chinese...
The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy
How Foreign Nations and International Organizations Influence U.S. Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This unique book examines how U.S. domestic policy regarding the death penalty has been influenced by international pressures, in particular, by foreign nations and international organizations.
International pressure has mounted against America’s use of the death penalty, straining diplomatic ties....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide to governance in areas of limited statehood where state authorities lack the capacity to implement and enforce central decision and/or to uphold the monopoly over the...
Partnerships in International Policy-Making
Civil Society and Public Institutions in European and Global Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book analyzes how international organizations and the European Union engage with civil society to pursue their policy goals. Multi-stakeholder initiatives, private-public partnership, sub-contracting, political alliances, hybrid coalitions, multi-sectoral networks, pluralist co-governance, and...
Geopolitics in Health
Confronting Obesity, AIDS, and Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In recent years, political leaders in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, collectively known as the BRICS, have worked to reformulate international discussions and policies on issues ranging from fair and free trade to human rights. When it comes to health epidemics, however, the BRICS...
America's Asia
Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2009
What explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars and as threats? America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a...