Advancing public diplomacy from a global citizenship perspective: an empirical study on how state and non state actors address foreign citizens in a globalised world
Advancing public diplomacy from a global citizenship perspective: an empirical study on how state and non state actors address foreign citizens in a globalised world
The growing relevance of global citizenship forces governments to rethink the procedures of conducting foreign policy and to acknowledge the plurality of actors in international relations. Besides being a target group of public diplomacy, citizens themselves constitute actors. They form associations or serve as small-scale ambassadors when exchanging thoughts and ideas with people from other countries and cultures. Thus, citizens have to be seen as a crucial factor in public diplomacy that has t