The study proposed here is the result of work conducted under NSF Digital Government Grant #306803, “How are we doing? Tracking country image in the information age.” The goal of the one-year planning grant (awarded May 2003) was to conduct project start-up activities. The objective of the study is to examine the institutional factors that influence the use of IT for knowledge management in pub...

In a growing number of countries diplomatic systems are being overhauled so that the commercial activities of diplomatic services have been centralised, the commercial activities of diplomats have been extended, and business interests have been formally integrated within diplomatic systems. These changes result directly from the tendency of governments to reorganise, and in many cases merge, th...

public diplomacy is an idiom that has been noticed increasingly in last decades due to extension of internet and satellite news networks. this type of diplomacy be used related to influence, guidance and mobilization of public opinion for the aims of governmental and non-governmental agents. in this article, the author tried to give analytical answer to this question: in spite of being newest, ...

For many years, the traditional diplomacy model was accepted as most important actor in building relations around world. Traditional involved negotiations between two or more government officials that resulted consensus conflict. Countries with especially high military and economic power international always had an advantageous position against their counterparts. has been dominant paradigm of ...