Dear Colleagues, I hope this e-mail finds you well. This is Kadir Ayhan from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia's Editor Han-Woo Park kindly asked me to be the Guest Editor of the Special Issue for JCEA's Summer 2018 issue. I would appreciate it if you can help me spread the call for papers. The issue will come out in June 2018, so I believe it may be helpful particularly for those who needs to publish urgently. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Kadir. P.S. Pdf and jpg versions are attached FYI. CALL FOR PAPERS for Summer 2018 Issue (Volume:17, Issue:1) of Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia Special Issue: Soft Power and Public Diplomacy in East Asia Guest Editor: Dr. Kadir Ayhan - Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (ayhan[at]hufs.ac.kr) Deadline to submit abstracts: January 5, 2018 We are looking for papers on East Asian countries’ soft power and/or public diplomacy. The papers must clearly conceptualize soft power and/or public diplomacy. Merely descriptive papers that list an actor’s soft power resources or public diplomacy activities are not acceptable. We seek both theoretical and empirical papers that may address, but not limited to, the topics related to an actor’s conversion of soft power resources into soft power, an actor’s soft power in certain field or region, an actor’s soft power goals, a state’s official public diplomacy initiatives, local governments’ or other governmental agencies’ public diplomacy initiatives, the role of NGOs, companies or citizens’ role in public diplomacy, people-to-people exchanges as public diplomacy. If you would like to publish in the special issue, please send your 350 words abstract by January 5, 2018 to editor[at]hufs.ac.kr (please include “JCEA Submission” in the title). Abstracts must 1) clearly articulate the authors’ analytical or theoretical framework, 2) specify the research aims and methodology, and 3) highlight the key findings of the paper. The stages of publication are as follows: January 5, 2018: Deadline for abstracts January 12, 2018: Notification of accepted abstracts February 28, 2018: Deadline for full papers March 10, 2018: Notification of guest editor reviews March 30, 2018: Submission of the revised articles. The papers will go through double-blind peer review May 10, 2018: Deadline for the final submission of revised papers June 1, 2018: Publication For more information on the journal, please refer to https://jceasia.org/ If you have any inquiries about the Special Issue, please contact editor[at]hufs.ac.kr Kadir AYHAN, PhD Assistant Professor Graduate School of International and Area Studies Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

1. CALL FOR PAPERS
for Summer 2018 Issue (Volume:17, Issue:1) of Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
Special Issue: Soft Power and Public Diplomacy in East Asia
Guest Editor: Dr. Kadir Ayhan - Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (ayhan@hufs.ac.kr)
Deadline to submit abstracts: January 5, 2018
We are looking for papers on East Asian countries’ soft power and/or public diplomacy. The papers
must clearly conceptualize soft power and/or public diplomacy. Merely descriptive papers that list
an actor’s soft power resources or public diplomacy activities are not acceptable. We seek both
theoretical and empirical papers that may address, but not limited to, the topics related to an actor’s
conversion of soft power resources into soft power, an actor’s soft power in certain field or region,
an actor’s soft power goals, a state’s official public diplomacy initiatives, local governments’ or
other governmental agencies’ public diplomacy initiatives, the role of NGOs, companies or
citizens’ role in public diplomacy, people-to-people exchanges as public diplomacy.
If you would like to publish in the special issue, please send your 350 words abstract by January
5, 2018 to editor@hufs.ac.kr (please include “JCEA Submission” in the title). Abstracts must 1)
clearly articulate the authors’ analytical or theoretical framework, 2) specify the research aims and
methodology, and 3) highlight the key findings of the paper.
The stages of publication are as follows:
January 5, 2018: Deadline for abstracts
January 12, 2018: Notification of accepted
abstracts
February 28, 2018: Deadline for full papers
March 10, 2018: Notification of guest editor
reviews
March 30, 2018: Submission of the revised
articles. The papers will go through double-
blind peer review
May 10, 2018: Deadline for the final
submission of revised papers
June 1, 2018: Publication
For more information on the journal, please refer to https://jceasia.org/
If you have any inquiries about the Special Issue, please contact editor@hufs.ac.kr