New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2023. This handbook offers a comprehensive, detailed, and ground-breaking examination of soft power - a key factor in cultural diplomacy, cultural relations, and public diplomacy. Interrogating soft power as influence the handbook examines manifestations in media, public mind, policy and theory - in a fraught geopolitical climate, one demanding reconceptualization of soft power's role in state and civic society behaviour. From the Contents: 29. Soft Power In Dark Collective Memory: The Case Of Japanese War Museums (Momoyo Shibuya).