Public diplomacy

Tommy Sears, theepochtimes.com Image from article, with caption: This photo taken on July 1, 2018 shows Chinese paramilitary personnel training in Chenzhou in China's central Hunan province. (-/AFP/Getty Images) Excerpt: The United States must strengthen its military presence in Asia and encourage allies to join it in confronting China economically and militarily as it grows as a competitor and threat to its neighbors and U.S. security interests. This was the message from U.S. senators and China experts appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 13. ... Dr. Oriana Mastro, assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University, emphasized that China, while building strength militarily, had actually devoted more effort and resources to political and economic tools. She advised “a program of institution building that will shape norms in [the United States’] favor and fill the gaps…that China has been able to exploit.” Talent ["Former Senator Jim Talent..

urdupoint.com Moscow expects more respect from Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesman Anatoly Glaz in relation to Russian Ambassador to Minsk Mikhail Babich, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told Sputnik on Friday uncaptioned image from article MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 15th March, 2019) Moscow expects more respect from Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesman Anatoly Glaz in relation to Russian Ambassador to Minsk Mikhail Babich, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told Sputnik on Friday. Earlier, Babich gave a big interview to Sputnik, in which he assessed the Belarusian-Russian relations and the work being carried out to determine the development paths for the Russia-Belarus Union State. In response, Glaz recommended Babich to "try to understand the specifics of the host country" and show some respect. According to Glaz, "sometimes this style of work gives a much greater result than testing for oneself the role of an adherent of public diplomacy [JB e..

amazon.com This book analyzes when and how Poland implemented public diplomacy [JB emphasis] . The author explains it as a form of external political communication of governments conducted in cooperation with non-state actors to position the country internationally. The Polish case illustrates how a mid-size country in Europe attempts to impact the public opinion formation abroad while implementing soft power tools. Since 2004, when Poland joined the EU, the country has used public diplomacy to inform the world about its achievements. Poland’s public diplomacy has been strongly oriented on Europe and shaped by geopolitics. It integrated transmission and network models of communication. The Polish model reflects the relevance of public diplomacy domestic dimension and the focus on foreign politics on memory. «The book (…) is the first monograph analyzing contemporary Polish public diplomacy written in English, being at the same time a methodologically sound piece of research, based on ..

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Pinned TweetKadir Jun Ayhan (한준)‏ @kadirayhan Mar 11 MoreMy recent article “The Boundaries of Public Diplomacy and Nonstate Actors: A Taxonomy of Perspectives” was published by @isanet’s #InternationalStudiesPerspectives journal last monthKadir Jun Ayhan International Studies Perspectives, Volume 20, Issue 1, 1 February 2019, Pages 63–83,https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/eky010Published: 20 August 2018 Abstract: Public diplomacy [JB emphasis] (PD) lacks an agreed-upon definition and boundaries. The ambiguity surrounding the conceptualization of the term leads to confusion among scholars and practitioners and hinders the consolidation of PD as an academic field. This article surveys 160 articles and books on PD, categorizes diverse perspectives into a taxonomy, and explores the coherence of each. The taxonomy can be categorized into these perspectives: state-centric, neo-statist, nontraditional, society-centric, and accommodative. The article maps the boundaries of public diplomacy with much ..

Place Branding and Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] (2017) 13, 101–106. doi:10.1057/s41254-017-0057-7 image (not from article) fromExcerpt: [T]he components of the Italian cultural heritage image play a fourfold role with respect to national products and services: (1) a general umbrella role across different categories of products and services characterized by similar core benefits (in this case the item aesthetics and beauty serves as an umbrella for products and services characterized by a highly aesthetic consumption experience such as tourism, arts, clothing, shoes, cars, etc.); (2) a specific endorser role for certain types of products or services that are more directly connected to certain cultural heritage components (such as the combinations painting and sculpture [;] fashion; architecture [;] design and furniture); (3) a product brand role for product categories that are perceived as‘‘direct components’’ of the national cultural heritage (such as food, which is not only a pro-duct..

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twitter.com NATO in Ukraine‏ @NATOinUkraine Mar 14 MoreWhat is public diplomacy? [JB emphasis] What is the main goal of #PD? How can PD help to build positive image for a country? Barbora Maronkova, #DirNIDC, delivers to the students of the Institute of International Relations series of lectures about public diplomacy. Two more lectures left! 0 replies2 retweets4 likesReply Retweet 2 Like 4 NATO in Ukraine Retweeted

One of many entries from Public Diplomacy Council Fellowship $15,000 April 30, 2019Awards Available: See Description Scholarship Description [...]The Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] Council is a nonprofit organization committed to fostering greater public recognition of public diplomacy in the conduct of foreign affairs. PDC serves as a resource and advocate for the teaching, training, and development of public diplomacy as an academic discipline, while promoting the importance of the academic study, professional practice, and responsible advocacy of public diplomacy. Its members, composed of Foreign Service and public diplomacy professionals, active and retired, as well as academics dedicated to public diplomacy scholarship, believe that understanding, informing, and influencing foreign publics and dialogue between Americans and United States’ institutions and their counterparts abroad are vital to the national interest and core elements of 21st century American diplomacy. The SOC/PDC ..

networks.h-net.org, on H-Diplo, see image (not from entry) from Excerpt: Week of 01 April: 1. H-Diplo Roundtable Review of James Loeffler, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Introduction by Samuel Moyn, Yale University Reviewed by: Michael Barnett, George Washington University Evgeny Finkel, Johns Hopkins University Janice Stein, University of Toronto 2. H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review of Ronald R. Krebs & Jennifer Spindel, “Divided Priorities: Why and When Allies Differ Over Military Intervention,” Security Studies (2018): 1-32. Review by: Marina Henke, Northwestern University 3. H-Diplo Article Review of Kristopher C. Erskine, “American Public Diplomacy [J emphasis] with Chinese Characteristics: The Genesis of the China Lobby in the United States, and how Missionaries Shifted American Foreign Policy between 1938 and 1941,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 25:1 (2018): 33-59. Review by T.J. Park, West Virg..