This paper was prompted by the growing interest in role and impact first ladies have on how contemporary states achieve their foreign policy goals through diplomatic means. Specifically, paper’s purpose is to examine whether are involved public diplomacy of states. The literature this subject limited, therefore aims fill that gap. argument traditional lady has evolved – from one outside any pol...

This paper observes the practice of Indonesian Missions abroad in conducting public diplomacy via social media. The research question is how do utilize media to connect with and support Indonesia’s foreign policies? uses a descriptive qualitative method primary secondary data. Primary data are gathered by observing @indonesiainjeddah @desrapercaya on Instagram. Secondary compiled using literatu...

Disaster diplomacy examines whether or not disasters induce international cooperation amongst enemy countries. The 26 December, 2004 tsunami around the Indian Ocean impacted more than a dozen countries, many with internal or external conflicts, thereby providing an opportunity to explore how the same event affects different countries in different disaster diplomacy contexts. Two groups of case ...