BEACON SOFT POWER AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY SERIES:DAY 7<\/b><\/p>\n
Today, the last and final segment <\/a>of the Soft Power\/Public Diplomacy series, Paul Kretkowski’s <\/strong>Beacon<\/strong><\/a> features….me ! Paul was kind enough to let me add some Zenpundit<\/em><\/strong> style to the Beacon<\/strong> substance on the subject of soft power.<\/p>\n I decided, as most of the other contributors were likely to focus on the modern era, to reach back a bit into history. An excerpt:<\/p>\n “As Japan entered the 16th century, it was torn between the warring armies of feudal lords and Buddhist monasteries. The Emperor in Kyoto was a mere figurehead and three remarkable military men,<\/span><\/strong> Oda Nobunaga<\/a>, Toyotomi Hideyoshi<\/a> and<\/span><\/strong> Ieyasu Tokugawa<\/a> would spend the better part of sixty years forcibly unifying Japan under the <\/span><\/strong>Tokugawa Shogunate<\/a>. It was at this time, in 1549, that<\/span><\/strong> Francis Xavier<\/a>, the Spanish Jesuit missionary, arrived at Satsuma. Xavier\u2019s mission as<\/span><\/strong> Apostolic Nuncio<\/a> would meet, in the words of historian<\/span><\/strong> Edwin O. Reischauer<\/a>, \u201cwith considerable success.\u201d<\/span><\/strong> Much thanks to Paul Kretkowski for putting together an excellent series and for inviting me to participate .<\/p>\n Blogging Note:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Going offline for a bit. Should be back later tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BEACON SOFT POWER AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY SERIES:DAY 7 Today, the last and final segment of the Soft Power\/Public Diplomacy series, Paul Kretkowski’s Beacon features….me ! Paul was kind enough to let me add some Zenpundit style to the Beacon substance on the subject of soft power. I decided, as most of the other contributors were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Read my Beacon guest post in full here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n