Sports Diplomacy from Public Diplomacy Perspective

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...

International Diplomacy in Perspective-A Contextual Analysis

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...

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...

public diplomacy reidentification in u.s foreign diplomacy after september 11th

public diplomacy as a means for describing new aspects of international diplomacy which has become an issue for debate since 1960 has been assumed as a part of diplomacy evolution chain in different time periods. on the other hand, america should be considered as among numerable great power which has benefited from diplomacy since the beginning and it has always committed to modern and innovati...