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Introduction to the Special Issue: Soft Power of Civil Society in International Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2012

TAKASHI INOGUCHI
TAKASHI INOGUCHI*
Affiliation:
Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and President of the University of Niigata [email protected]
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This special issue focuses on the role of civil society in international relations. It highlights the dynamics and impacts of public opinion on international relations (Zaller, 1992). Until recently, it was usual to consider public opinion in terms of its influence on policy makers and in terms of moulding public opinion in the broad frame of the policy makers in one's country. Given that public opinion in the United States was assessed and judged so frequently and diffused so globally, it was natural to frame questions guided by those concepts which pertained to the global and domestic context of the United States.

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Japanese Journal of Political Science , Volume 13 , Special Issue 4: Soft Power of Civil Society in International Relations , December 2012 , pp. 473 - 476
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