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老司机视频 Ph.D. Candidate Fatimaah Menefee will present her doctoral research on soft power and international relations of Asian and African countries at four academic conferences in the coming months: in France, Poland, Ghana, and Singapore.

Fatimaah joined the American Graduate School in Paris in September 2018 after engaging in an already very international career that spanned the US and South Korea. She first worked for ten years with the US Department of Health and Human Services, with the State of Texas, City of Houston and Municipality of Anchorage, where her missions focused on community engagement, public health education, and child abuse and neglect investigations. She then founded ESE & SEGYE, a start up consulting firm based in Seoul, which focuses on the cultural diplomacy and branding of African countries in Asia.

Fatimaah joined 老司机视频 with the ambition to make ESE & SEGYE the bridge that connects Africa and Asia through what she calls 鈥楥assava Diplomacy鈥�. Her graduate research at 老司机视频 concentrates on Non-Western Middle Power States and Soft Power. Her dissertation explores Soft Power Foreign Policies of South Korea and South Africa, and the lessons that South Africa can learn from South Korea.

鈥淥ne of the great things that I appreciate with attending 老司机视频 is the diversity in thought and perceptions in the way the faculty and students understand international relations and diplomacy. It challenges me as a student and as a professional that wants to contribute to non-Western international relations.鈥�

Fatimaah was encouraged by Professor Ruchi Anand to submit papers to international relations conferences focusing on themes to which her research would be relevant. All of her submissions were met with interest, so she will be 鈥渙n tour鈥� all Spring and summer!

On March 15th, Fatimaah will travel to Le Havre, Normandy to present her paper entitled 鈥淯buntu Diplomacy Meet Kimchi Diplomacy: Soft Power Lessons from South Korea to South Africa鈥� at the conference . This international multidisciplinary conference is co-organized by Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne, Universit茅 Le Havre, and research centers CHAC (Centre d鈥橦istoire de l鈥橝sie Contemporaine) and GRIC (Groupe de Recherches Identit茅s et Cultures). Fatimaah will be part of a panel on Asia and Africa, which will also feature presenters from George Washington University and Frostburg University in the US. Her paper explores how economic reform, technology transformation and cultural assets (soft power) transformed South Korea into a successful influential middle power state, and questions the possibility of the South Korean model to work for South Africa.

Fatimaah will present this paper at two other conferences with the International Studies Association (ISA), of which she became a member : in July, at the , which will be held at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (July 4-6, 2019); and in August, at the ISA International Conference, which will take place at the University of Ghana鈥檚 Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy, in Accra, Ghana.

Additionally, in June, Fatimaah will present her paper 鈥淚s the State as Actor Losing Its Primacy in International System?鈥� at the . The 2019 edition鈥檚 special focus on 鈥淭he 鈥楨nd of History鈥� 30 Years On: Globalization Then and Now鈥� will cover themes ranging from political to economic to societal, cultural and environmental. Fatimaah鈥檚 paper looks at the withering of the State as a chief social actor in the international system. It is unable to provide for its own best interest, so it must share custody with non-state actors, technology and mass communications ().

鈥淲hile completing my dissertation and working on these various papers, I am able to receive feedback from my classmates that have real-life experience in international relations,鈥� says Fatimaah Menefee. 鈥淥ne of my classmates is an active US military officer who works in global health. Having the opportunity to confront my view with her, who has a different take on the appeal and application of soft power, makes me sharper in my argument. With my dissertation research, I hope to be able to start a conversation on what international relations theory looks like for non-Western States and how they understand the importance of soft tools in diplomacy.鈥�