GEOG 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Public Diplomacy
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Public diplomacy and image-making to foreign and domestic audiences: twiplomacy: conducting diplomacy through twitter. Useful tool for relaying information and marketing. A lot of social media isn"t directly from the high leadership, but from interns: communicating with different states, forming good impression, does visibility give you power? i. e the united states. Us: marketing tool, want to reach new audiences: diffuses power. Banal nationalism/glamorized nationalism: nationalist that is subtle, but still markets the nation i. e canada is a very peaceful nation, mun: to think like a state. Public diplomacy diffuses power and puts it in more spaces. Example: united nations: 193 member states, founded in 1945, intergovernmental, united nations cannot do more than the state. Example of how states hold power, not letting people into the game . Either diplomacy(state based), or if it goes over, then it"s something else. Eu: leave national loyalty to represent european union. Can you represent something other than a state at an international level.
