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Introduction : new dimensions in the politics of image and aid / James Pamment and Karin Gwinn Wilkins -- Communication at the crossroads of development, public diplomacy & soft power / James Pamment -- The business of bilateral branding / Karin Gwinn Wilkins -- Nation branding, neoliberal development, and the remaking of the nation-state : lessons from post-war Kosovo / Nadia Kaneva -- Odd bedfellows? U.S. pub(l)ic diplomacy, Colombian industry policy, and the development of sex tourism in Cartagena / Olga Lucia & Toby Miller -- Entitled to benevolence? South Korea's government-sponsored volunteers as public diplomacy and development actors / Kyung Sun (Karen) Lee -- The slow re-unification of development assistance and public diplomacy : exchange and collaboration activities through the Swedish Institute 1973–2012 / Andreas Åkerlund -- State-civil society partnership in international aid and public diplomacy : the case of Turkey and Somalia / Senem B. Cevik, Efe Sevin, Banu Baybars Hawks -- Communicating Mexico's international development cooperation : an incipient public diplomacy strategy / Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard -- Power relations in development communication and public diplomacy : U.S. and Chinese practices in Afghanistan / Di Wu -- Ambivalent perception of China's 'One Belt One Road' in Russia : 'United Eurasia' dream or 'metallic band' of containment? / Larisa Smirnova -- Conclusion / Karin Gwinn Wilkins and James Pamment.