New Public Diplomacy

JAN MELISSEN is Director of the Clingendael Diplomatic Studies Programme (CDSP), Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael', in The Hague, and Professor in the Department of Politics at Antwerp University (Belgium). He is Co-Editor of the new The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, which is published by Brill Academic Publishers. His previous book with Palgrave-Macmillan is Innovation in Diplomatic Practice (1999).

• Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; J.Melissen PART I: THE NEW ENVIRONMENT The New Public Diplomacy: Between Theory and Practice; J.Melissen Rethinking the 'New' Public Diplomacy; B.Hocking PART II: SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES Power, Public Diplomacy and the Pax Americana ; P.van Ham Niche Diplomacy in the World Public Arena: The Global 'Corners' of Canada and Norway; A.K.Henrikson Public Diplomacy in the People's Republic of China; I.d'Hooghe Revolutionary States, Outlaw Regimes and the Techniques of Public Diplomacy; P.Sharp The EU as a Soft Power: The Force of Persuasion; A.Michalski PART III: IMPROVING PRACTICE Culture Communicates: US Diplomacy that Works; C.P.Schneider Making a National Brand; W.Olins Dialogue-Based Public Diplomacy: A New Foreign Policy Paradigm?; S.Riordan Training for Public Diplomacy: An Evolutionary Perspective; J.Hemery Index

'The New Public Diplomacy has become one of the most frequently cited non-American titles on public diplomacy.' Discussion Papers in Diplomacy 'This timely and fascinating book brings much needed scholarship to the global conversation on public diplomacy.' - Bruce Gregory, Director, Public Diplomacy Institute, George Washington University, USA 'The New Public Diplomacy is an excellent and original collection probing a topic at the heart of contemporary international relations.' - Nicholas J. Cull, Professor of Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California, USA 'Jan Melissen's book is a very valuable contribution to an increasingly important field of study. At a time when policymakers are still feeling their way towards an understanding of soft power and public diplomacy, Prof. Melissen and his distinguished colleagues ask - and convincingly answer - some pressing questions.' - Philip Fiske de Gouveia, Senior Research Associate, Public Diplomacy Programme, The Foreign Policy Centre 'Public Diplomacy, this striking departure from the old foreign policy rituals of confidential interaction behind closed doors, has become widely recognized and enacted by practitioners, but so far, has not been written about extensively in academic literature. Jan Melissen's book fills this gap and should find the interest of those who practice and those who study diplomacy.' - Ambassador Karl Th. Paschke, author of the so-called 'Paschke Report' '[This] is a quarry from which the materials for much interesting work on the subject can be cut and a most useful addition to the literature.' - Political Studies Review