ABOUT THE BOOK
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The book
makes a major contribution to the academic literature on diplomacy, foreign
policy & soft power by studying the Indian and Chinese image-building
processes in Southeast Asia — an increasingly significant region for both the
Asian players — and the accompanying discourse. The volume
focuses on various geo-political and economic compulsions driving India and
China’s image-building efforts and examines the nuances and characteristics
defining their engagement of the region based on primary sources and extensive
field study. Leaderships of both countries have been pragmatic in extending the
scope of engagement, exploring new ways and means for strengthening the
regional relationship and efforts to develop together. Regionalisation, as the
book argues, has been deployed by both
India and China among their strategies for a positive image make-over. The
existing academic literature on both India and China’s image-building efforts are relatively scant and are yet to be
rigorously researched. The book makes an important contribution to the existing
literature through its examination of various facets of India and China’s external engagement and diplomacy for building
respective images in Southeast Asia.
ABOUT Author
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Dr Parama Sinha Palit is a scholar of international
relations currently based in Singapore. She is the author of Analysing China’s
Soft Power Strategy and Comparative Indian Initiatives (2017) - a
book discussing the historical underpinnings and contemporary application of
Chinese soft power in various parts of the world, along with similar Indian
efforts. She is a Research Associate with the China in Comparative Perspective
Network (CCPN) — a UK-based global academic society focusing on China.She has
earlier worked with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and
the United Services Institution (USI) in India, and also with the Middle East
Institute (MEI), National University of Singapore (NUS). She has presented
several papers on foreign policy and cultural & public diplomacy at various
Universities and academic institutes in Europe, Australia, China, India and
Singapore. She also writesfor leading newspapers in India, Singapore and China
and is a reviewer for several international journals. She knows Mandarin and
has experience of extensive empirical field research in China, India and
Southeast Asia. She can be reached at psinhapalit@gmail.com.