A. Chong 
Foreign Policy in Global Information Space 
Actualizing Soft Power

This book examines how foreign policy can adapt to the challenge of globalization. Two central questions are posed:how can foreign policy defend or project statist political communities using soft power within a global information space? Does soft power affect foreign policy by undermining statist community within the same global information space?

Table of Content

Introduction: Nation-State Foreign Policy Amidst Globalization Towards a Changing Environment for Foreign Policy: Nation-State, Globalization, and Information as Political Power Global Information Space, Discursive Community and Soft Power Soft Power in Foreign Policy Leadership in Foreign Policy, From Inside-Out and Outside-In: Singaporean Foreign Policy and the Asian Values Debate 1992-2000 The Intermestic Politics of Foreign Policy: Chilean Foreign Policy and the Pinochet Extradition Controversy 1998-2000 Conclusion: Soft Power Foreign Policy-Creation Spinning Re-creation

About the author

ALAN CHONG is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore.