International Broadcasting and Its Contested Role in Australian Statecraft: Middle Power, Smart Power

International Broadcasting and Its Contested Role in Australian Statecraft: Middle Power, Smart Power
ISBN-10
1839985062
ISBN-13
9781839985065
Category
Social Science
Pages
199
Language
English
Published
2023-03-14
Publisher
Anthem Press
Author
Geoff Heriot

Description

This book offers an insightful reappraisal of international broadcasting as discursive rather than ‘soft’ power in service of democratic statecraft. This at a time when issues of transnational media, the credibility of news and the perils of disinformation and information warfare, figure worryingly in public discourse. Reflecting the perspective of middle power Australia, author Geoff Heriot locates the strategic utility of multiplatform international broadcasting with reference to contemporary theories of soft/hard/smart power projection and intercultural communication. He applies a fresh model of strategic analysis to the political history of Radio Australia, examining the various external and internal variables that resulted in its flawed success in political communication during the late Cold War period.

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