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Public and Cultural Diplomacy 3 A group blog by students at London Metropolitan University
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(https://publicandculturaldiplomacy3.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/534072_329138837143800_3263014540 With the increase in globalization, people are more likely to have encounters face to face. This way people can listen and engage better and share common interests and values. In this society, citizen diplomacy and globalization are interlocked. Governments support interactions between citizens with similar interests i.e. artists, scholars etc. They also encourage non-governmental organisations and businesses to pursue the foreign public. Safari Power Saver Click to Start Flash Plug-in
The National Council for International Visitors motto states that citizen diplomacy is the concept that the individual has the right, even the responsibility to help shape U.S. foreign relations, one handshake at a time.
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One Comment 1. stevencurtislm permalink Thank you for your thoughts on this subject. This is a nicely presented piece. You are right that citizen diplomacy is a difficult concept to define or confine, as all sorts of activities can be labelled that way. The connection between citizen diplomacy and nation branding is interesting. While Anholt stresses the importance of word of mouth and personal relations, I have not come across explicit references to citizen diplomacy in the nation branding literature: the former tends to appear in peace and conflict studies literature, the latter in the marketing literature. While there is obviously a clear connection, nation branders probably think of citizen diplomacy in a much more passive sense of presenting your country abroad rather than transforming conflicts and world politics more generally. Indeed, more radical interpretations of citizen diplomacy stress complete independence from state identities and interests, which they see as part of the problem of competitive and potentially violent world politics. The nation branders simply embrace the competition. I was interested to read that the phrase citizen diplomacy was only coined in the 1980s. I thought it went back to at least the 1950s with Eisenhowers initiative. Please explore this a little more and provide a reference to Hoffman. Did he give the concept a particular twist? Perhaps you could explore these issues in more depth, with some reference to the literature, when you come to revise this entry for inclusion in your seminar log at the end of the module. Reply
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