Soft Power in the Indo-Pacific
Panelists:
• Matthew Graves: “Soft power and ‘the rupture in the world order’: middle power perspectives.”
This paper explores the place of soft power in the emerging realignment of the middle power democracies of the Indo-Pacific in an era of rupture in international relations marked by the disintegration of the postwar rules-based international community and the unraveling of the alliance networks long taken for granted that underpin it.
Matthew Graves is professor of Contemporary British and Commonwealth History, Culture and Society at Aix-Marseille University. He leads the research group on Otherness, Memory and Identity at the Laboratory for the Study of the English-Speaking World and co-edits the Contemporary Societies series at the Provence University Press in association with Liverpool University Press.
• Jiyu Choi: « Reconfiguring EU Soft Power in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Partnerships with South Korea and Japan »
Dr Jiyu Choi is a postdoctoral researcher in the DAIP (Democratic Alliance in the Indo-Pacific) Project at LERMA (UR853), Aix-Marseille University. Her research focuses on international relations, with an emphasis on EU–Northeast Asia relations and Indo-Pacific geopolitics. She is particularly interested in how international norms such as democracy, human rights, and peace shape regional and global dynamics. She engages in academic and policy discussions on EU–Asia relations through her academic research, scholarly publications, policy analysis, and media contributions.
• Oliver Turner: “Narrating US soft power in the Asia Pacific”
Oliver Turner is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are currently the roles of social forces including discourse/narrative, identity, empire, and emotions in the making of foreign policy. Empirically he focusses on the Asia Pacific and its engagements with the US, UK, and wider West. His work appears across his numerous academic books and peer reviewed journal articles. He is currently working on a new book which explores the history of US political narratives and their role in expanding and legitimising its global imperial projects.
• Jessica Gosling
• James Curran
• Isabelle Vagnoux : « US public diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific »
• Priyam Sangam Tripathy : « India’s Soft Power in a Changing World: Culture, Diplomacy, and Global Influence »