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Beijing's Global Media Offensive

China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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Beijing's Global Media Offensive

China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

A major analysis of how China is attempting to become a media and information superpower around the world, seeking to shape the politics, local media, and information environments of both East Asia and the World. Since China's ascendancy toward major-power status began in the 1990s, many observers have focused on its economic growth and expanding military. China's ability was limited in projecting power over information and media and the infrastructure through which information flows. That has begun to change. Beijing's state-backed media, which once seemed incapable having a significant effect globally, has been overhauled and expanded. At a time when many democracies' media outlets are consolidating due to financial pressures, China's biggest state media outlets, like the newswire Xinhua, are modernizing, professionalizing, and expanding in attempt to reach an international audience. Overseas, Beijing also attempts to impact local media, civil society, and politics by having Chinese firms or individuals with close links buy up local media outlets, by signing content-sharing deals with local media, by expanding China's social media giants, and by controlling the wireless and wired technology through which information now flows, among other efforts. In Beijing's Global Media Offensive - a major analysis of how China is attempting to build a media and information superpower around the world, and how this media power integrates with other forms of Chinese influence - Joshua Kurlantzick focuses on how all of this is playing out in both China's immediate neighborhood - Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand - and also in the United States and many other parts of the world. He traces the ways in which China is trying to build an information and influence superpower, but also critically examines the new conventional wisdom that Beijing has enjoyed great success with these efforts. While China has worked hard to build a global media and information superpower, it often has failed to reap gains from its efforts, and has undermined itself with overly assertive, alienating diplomacy. Still, Kurlantzick contends, China's media, information and political influence campaigns will continue to expand and adapt, helping Beijing exports its political model and protect the ruling Party, and potentially damaging press freedoms, human rights, and democracy abroad. An authoritative account of how this sophisticated and multi-pronged campaign is unfolding, Beijing's Global Media Offensive provides a new window into China's attempts to make itself an information superpower.

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Oxford University Press

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0197515762

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A Great Place to Have a War

America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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A Great Place to Have a War

America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

The untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of, is at risk of falling to communism and triggering a domino effect throughout Southeast Asia. This is what President Eisenhower believed when he approved the CIA’s Operation Momentum, creating an army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces there. Largely hidden from the American public—and most of Congress—Momentum became the largest CIA paramilitary operation in the history of the United States. The brutal war lasted more than a decade, left the ground littered with thousands of unexploded bombs, and changed the nature of the CIA forever. With “revelatory reporting” and “lucid prose” (The Economist), Kurlantzick provides the definitive account of the Laos war, focusing on the four key people who led the operation: the CIA operative whose idea it was, the Hmong general who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist who trained the Hmong forces, and the State Department careerist who took control over the war as it grew. Using recently declassified records and extensive interviews, Kurlantzick shows for the first time how the CIA’s clandestine adventures in one small, Southeast Asian country became the template for how the United States has conducted war ever since—all the way to today’s war on terrorism.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451667892

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State Capitalism

How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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State Capitalism

How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized by the "Washington Consensus:" the idea that free markets, democratic institutions, limitations on government involvement in the economy, and the rule of law were the foundations of prosperity and stability. The last fifteen years, starting with the Asian financial crisis, have seen the gradual erosion of that consensus. Many commentators have pointed to the emergence of a powerful new rival model: state capitalism. In state capitalist regimes, the government typically owns firms in strategic industries. Not beholden to private-sector shareholders, such firms are allowed to operate with razor-thin margins if the state deems them strategically important. China, soon to be the world's largest economy, is the best known state capitalist regime, but it is hardly the only one. In State Capitalism, Joshua Kurlantzick ranges across the world--China, Thailand, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and more--and argues that the increase in state capitalism across the globe has, on balance, contributed to a decline in democracy. He isolates some of the reasons for state capitalism's resurgence: the fact that globalization favors economies of scale in the most critical industries, and the widespread rejection of the Washington Consensus in the face of the problems that have plagued the world economy in recent years. That said, a number of democratic nations have embraced state capitalism, and in those regimes, state-backed firms like Brazil's Embraer have enjoyed considerable success. Kurlantzick highlights the mixed record and the evolving nature of the model, yet he is more concerned about the negative effects of state capitalism. When states control firms, whether in democratic or authoritarian regimes, the government increases its advantage over the rest of society. The combination of new technologies, the perceived failures of liberal economics and democracy in many developing nations, the rise of modern kinds of authoritarians, and the success of some of the best-known state capitalists have created an era ripe for state intervention. State Capitalism offers the sharpest analysis yet of what state capitalism's emergence means for democratic politics around the world.

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Oxford University Press

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0199385718

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The Ideal Man

The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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The Ideal Man

The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war—and the steep price he paid for failing Jim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never saw. As the Cold War reached Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson believed, help other nations build democracies from their traditional cultures or, as his ex-OSS friend Willis Bird argued, remake the world through deception and self-serving alliances? In a story rich with insights and intrigue, this book explores a key Cold War episode that is still playing out today. Highlights a pivotal moment in Cold War history that set a course for American foreign policy that is still being followed today Explores the dynamics that put Thailand at the center of the Cold War and the fighting in neighboring Laos that escalated from sideshow to the largest covert operation America had ever engaged in Draws on personal recollections and includes atmospheric details that bring the people, events—and the Thailand of the time—to life Written by a journalist with extensive experience in Asian affairs who has spent years investigating every aspect of this story, including Thompson's tragic disappearance

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Turner Publishing Company

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1118098110

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Democracy in Retreat

The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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Democracy in Retreat

The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

Contends that the spate of retreating democracies over the past two decades is not just a series of exceptions, but instead an indicator of democracy in worldwide decline, in a book that looks at a number of countries as examples. 10,000 first printing.

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Yale University Press

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0300175388

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Beijing's Global Media Offensive

China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World

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A Great Place to Have a War

America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA

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Simon and Schuster

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China's Relations with Africa

A New Era of Strategic Engagement

By: Joshua Eisenman,David H. Shinn

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China's Relations with Africa

A New Era of Strategic Engagement

By: Joshua Eisenman,David H. Shinn

Since Xi Jinping’s accession to power in 2012, nearly every aspect of China’s relations with Africa has grown dramatically. Beijing has increased the share of resources it devotes to African countries, expanding military cooperation, technological investment, and educational and cultural programs as well as extending its political influence. This book examines the full scope of contemporary political and security relations between China and Africa. David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman not only explain the specific tactics and methods that Beijing uses to build its strategic relations with African political and military elites but also contextualize and interpret them within China’s larger geostrategy. They argue that the priorities of Chinese leaders—including the conflation of threats to the Communist Party with threats to the country, a growing emphasis on relations in the Global South, and a focus on countering U.S. hegemony—have combined to elevate Africa’s importance among policy makers in Beijing. Ranging from diplomacy and propaganda to arms sales and space cooperation, from increasingly frequent People’s Liberation Army Navy port calls in Africa to the rising number of African students studying in China, this book marshals extensive and compelling qualitative and quantitative evidence of the deepening ties between China and Africa. Drawing on two decades of systematic data and hundreds of surveys and in-person interviews, Shinn and Eisenman shed new light on the state of China-Africa relations today and consider what the future may hold.

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Columbia University Press

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0231558228

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China and the Developing World

Beijing's Strategy for the Twenty-First Century

By: Joshua Eisenman

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China and the Developing World

Beijing's Strategy for the Twenty-First Century

By: Joshua Eisenman

Featuring contributions by recognized experts, this in-depth examintion of China's evolving relationship with the developing world reflects sweeping changes both within and outside of China and the transformation of geopolitics since the end of the cold war.

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M.E. Sharpe

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State Capitalism

How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World

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Oxford University Press

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The Ideal Man

The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War

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Wiley

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Democracy in Retreat

The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

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The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

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Book's by Joshua Kurlantzick

Beijing's Global Media Offensive

Beijing's Global Media Offensive

A Great Place to Have a War

A Great Place to Have a War

State Capitalism

State Capitalism

The Ideal Man

The Ideal Man

Democracy in Retreat

Democracy in Retreat

Beijing's Global Media Offensive

Beijing's Global Media Offensive

A Great Place to Have a War

A Great Place to Have a War

China's Relations with Africa

China's Relations with Africa

China and the Developing World

China and the Developing World

State Capitalism

State Capitalism

The Ideal Man

The Ideal Man

Democracy in Retreat

Democracy in Retreat

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