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The European region - especially given the existence of the
European Union (EU) - necessarily encompasses multiple levels of
public diplomacy: subnational, national, transnational, and
supranational. But do the various aspects of Europe's multi-leveled
public diplomacy form a coherent overall image, or do they work
against each other to some extent? European Public Diplomacy: Soft
Power at Work pushes the literature on public diplomacy forward
through a multifaceted exploration of the European case. In so
doing, it fills an important gap in the international relations
literature on the mechanisms behind soft power.
The Politics of Crisis in Europe explores the resilience of the
European Union in the face of repeated crises perceived to threaten
its very existence. While it is often observed after the fact that
these crises serve as opportunities for integration, this is the
first critical analysis to suggest that we cannot fully understand
the nature and severity of these crises without recognising the
role of societal reaction to events and the nature of social
narratives about crisis, especially those advanced by the media.
Through a close examination of the 2003 Iraq crisis, the 2005
constitutional crisis, and the 2010-12 Eurozone crisis, this book
identifies a pattern across these episodes, demonstrating how
narratives about crises provide the means to openly air underlying
societal tensions that would otherwise remain under the surface,
impeding further integration.
The European region - especially given the existence of the
European Union (EU) - necessarily encompasses multiple levels of
public diplomacy: subnational, national, transnational, and
supranational. But do the various aspects of Europe's multi-leveled
public diplomacy form a coherent overall image, or do they work
against each other to some extent? European Public Diplomacy: Soft
Power at Work pushes the literature on public diplomacy forward
through a multifaceted exploration of the European case. In so
doing, it fills an important gap in the international relations
literature on the mechanisms behind soft power.
International Cooperation Against All Odds: The Ultrasocial World
recasts how we understand international relations through an
examination of how the human evolutionary predisposition to be
"ultrasocial" as a species impacts which political ideas succeed,
transform, manipulate, and inspire on a global scale. At a time
when pessimism about our current world order is at an all-time
high, this book overturns widespread assumptions that international
relations is mainly about conflict, power, and national
self-interest. In the last 10-20 years, scientists have discovered
that as a species, we are biologically hard-wired, soft-wired, and
pre-wired to be other-regarding and cooperative. Humans are an
ultrasocial species, and yet this predisposition is completely
ignored in governments across the world. Political leaders,
experts, and the media have cultivated a myopic vision of global
conflict, feeding an obsession on crises of the moment, rather than
recognizing frequent and significant breakthroughs in peaceful
cooperation and overall trends in the decline of violence. This
book shows how time and time again our ultrasocial predisposition
has pushed us towards big ideas that inspire and bring us together
around the power of possibility. Featuring original research on
international cooperation in outer-space exploration, European
Union integration, nuclear weapons, and climate change, among other
examples, Mai'a K. Davis Cross shows ultrasociality at work in a
range of contexts. Tracing the path from social neuroscience and
evolutionary biology (among others) to the power of ideas to
international agreements, International Cooperation Against All
Odds opens up an entirely new understanding of world politics. If
we recognize our nature as a species and the potential we have to
work together, we can start to transform institutions, and devise
policies that take advantage of this. The book ends with a roadmap
to promote more international cooperation, and eventually, a more
stable, peaceful world order.
The Politics of Crisis in Europe explores the resilience of the
European Union in the face of repeated crises perceived to threaten
its very existence. While it is often observed after the fact that
these crises serve as opportunities for integration, this is the
first critical analysis to suggest that we cannot fully understand
the nature and severity of these crises without recognising the
role of societal reaction to events and the nature of social
narratives about crisis, especially those advanced by the media.
Through a close examination of the 2003 Iraq crisis, the 2005
constitutional crisis, and the 2010-12 Eurozone crisis, this book
identifies a pattern across these episodes, demonstrating how
narratives about crises provide the means to openly air underlying
societal tensions that would otherwise remain under the surface,
impeding further integration.
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