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...

The paper evaluates several potential public policies to increase research and development (R&D) investments with the goal of introducing innovations to reduce harmful industrial emissions. The policies – new preinnovation taxes, more stringent emissions regulations, promotion of cooperative R&D, promotion of outside financing from other companies and from the public, diplomacy to encourage emi...

Digital public diplomacy or digital can be viewed as an Internet-based amplification of activities a novel set practices enabled by participatory communication technologies. This tension is addressed through thematic content analysis the Facebook posts and tweets six actors. Results indicate that although vast majority could classified according to Cull’s taxonomy (The ANNALS American Academy P...

The rise of global health issues within the world of foreign policy is precipitating great interest in the concept and practice of health diplomacy. Much discussion of this new field, particularly within the global health community, has narrowly focused on how diplomatic negotiations and foreign policy can be used to support global health goals [1,2]. Recent articles claim, for example, that ‘‘...

BACKGROUND Global health diplomacy (GHD) is a burgeoning field bridging the priorities of global health and foreign affairs. Given the increasing need to mobilize disparate global health stakeholders coupled with the need to design complex public health partnerships to tackle issues of international concern, effective and timely cooperation among state actors is critical. Health Attachés repres...

Public diplomacy has always been considered as an important complement to official diplomacy, and its connotation expanding since concept was first put forward in the 1960s. It is one of crucial tools for shaping national image enhancing soft power. With deepening globalization development information technology, a new form public called "digital diplomacy" emerged attracted attention various c...

Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Adjunct Faculty, McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Research Fellow, Global Health Diplomacy Program, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Fulbright & Knox Fellow, Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, Dea...