Chapter 6 Pulic diplomacy

6.1 Discussion questions

  • Are sanctions effective? Did any of the readings change your answers from last week?

  • What are sanctions according to Pape? How is it different from Baldwin’s definition (according to him)? Should sanctions include coercion for economic purposes? What is Paper’s stance? Why according to him?

  • What is the research question of Bapat & Kwon 2015? Why is it puzzling? What do they mean by sanctions success? How is this related to Pape 1997? (Note that you should feel free to skip over their formal model section pp.136-149)

  • What are the determinants of sanction success/effectiveness? How about other tools of economic statecraft, such as foreign aid? (*)

6.2 Public diplomacy

AidData published a report concerning China’s public diplomacy in 2018: Ties That Bind: Quantifying China’s public diplomacy and its “good neighbor” effect. You can play around with their data here: China’s Public Diplomacy. You can also download their data here: China’s Public Diplomacy Dashboard Dataset, Version 1.2.