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CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF CHINA’S SOFT POWER 31Author BiographyR.S. Zaharna is an associate professor in the School ofCommunication and affiliate associate professor in the School ofInternational Service at American University in Washington, D.C.Her public diplomacy research interests are in culture and relationalapproaches (networks and collaboration). In addition to morethan twenty years of teaching strategic communication, she hasadvised on communication projects for multinational corporations,governments, and international organizations, including the UnitedNations, World Bank, and NATO. Her writings include Battles toBridges: U.S. Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy after9/11 (2010), The Cultural Awakening in Public Diplomacy (2012),as well as co-editing Relational, Networked and CollaborativeApproaches to Public Diplomacy: the Connective Mindshift (2014)with Amelia Arsenault and Ali Fisher.