The Art of State Persuasion

China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes

Frances Yaping Wang (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-775751-2 (ISBN)

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Why do nations actively publicize previously overlooked disputes? And why does this domestic mobilization sometimes fail to result in aggressive policy measures? The Art of State Persuasion delves into China's strategic use of state propaganda during crucial crisis events, particularly focusing on border disputes. Frances Wang aims to explain the diverse strategies employed in Chinese state media, analyzing why certain disputes are amplified while others are downplayed. This variation, as proposed, is contingent on the degree of alignment between Chinese state policy and public opinion. When public sentiment is more moderate than the state's foreign policy objectives, the government initiates a "mobilization campaign." Conversely, if public opinion is more hawkish than state policy, the authorities deploy a "pacification campaign" to mollify public sentiment.

Through a comprehensive examination of medium-N and case-study analyses, Wang elucidates these arguments. The research incorporates extensive textual analyses of media reports, interviews with officials and journalists, and archival data. The book also illuminates the mechanics of mobilization and pacification media campaigns, enabling policy makers to distinguish varying state foreign policy intentions. This book not only acknowledges the significance of public opinion but also illustrates how fluctuating public sentiment is delicately managed by the state through diverse discursive tactics. By highlighting the existence and relevance of pacification campaigns, The Art of State Persuasion enhances our understanding of propaganda, and challenges the traditional view of China's propaganda as uniformly aggressive, bringing to light a more nuanced picture especially in the domain of foreign policy.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.08.2024
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 236 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-775751-0 / 0197757510
ISBN-13	978-0-19-775751-2 / 9780197757512
Zustand	Neuware