From soft power to reputational security: rethinking public diplomacy and cultural diplomacy for a dangerous age

The Role of Diplomacy and Soft Power in Combatting Terrorism

public diplomacy and soft power: iran and america in the new iraq

the main goal of this article, this review is that due to the decline of the united states america's soft power after the invasion of iraq in march 2003 - due to the power of unilateral hardware-based - iran can and should according to the religious, historical, and cultural commonalities with its neighboring, strengthen software sources of power than the new iraq to create a strategic and...

Public Diplomacy Between Theory and Practice

This paper reflects on trends in public diplomacy and on some of Spain’s public diplomacy challenges. The author is a member of the Working Group ‘Una Diplomacia Pública para España’. The paper is the text of a presentation delivered at the first Madrid Conference on Public Diplomacy, which was held on 10 October 2006 at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Diplomatic School. Organised by t...

New Public Diplomacy and Islamic Awakening

As the pioneer of contemporary Islamic awakening, Islamic revolution of Iran has a mission to inform people of middle-east region about the opportunities and challenges of recent uprisings. On the other hand, it has yet another mission, called the exportation of the revolution by late Imam Khomeini, to inform people of the countries where Islamic awakening has not spread yet. The tool Islamic r...

Spinning the Globe? U.S. Public Diplomacy and Foreign Public Opinion

Global public opinion has emerged as an important factor affecting international relations. But have U.S. public diplomacy efforts during the post-9/11 period successfully improved foreign publics’ images of the U.S. and its foreign policy? We examine this question by estimating the effects of U.S. high-level visits to foreign countries on public opinion in those countries. Our compositional da...