This book explores the significant yet understudied role of non-state actors (NSAs) as
agents of disruption and dissent in public diplomacy. While existing research
mainly focuses on collaborative aspects of state-NSA relations, this book
delves into instances where NSAs challenge their states foreign and domestic
policies, directly impacting public diplomacy efforts.
From protests challenging the good image that the state governments try to project, to
activities of governments-in-exile and dissenting diaspora groups, to cities
taking actions that defy official state policies examples of non-state actors
engaging in political dissent and disrupting the public diplomacy efforts of
their states can be found in virtually any region and political system. Yet the
phenomenon of political dissent and its role in public diplomacy remains
understudied by public diplomacy scholars. This book seeks to fill this gap.
Part I: Introduction.-Part II: Conceptual foundations.-Chapter
1.
Disruption in Public Diplomacy: Towards Clarification of a Fractured Term,
Ilan Manor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.-Chapter
2. Outsiders Running
Amok: Representational Power and Legitimacy of Nonstate Actors in Diplomacy,
Robert Kelley, American University.-Part III: Case studies.Chapter 3:
Disrupting Apartheid: Non-state public diplomacy and the struggle for freedom
in SouthAfrica. Nicholas J. Cull, University of Southern California.-Chapter
4: Public diplomacy as performative ethics: Dissent and collective moral
consciousness in 1980s UK politics. Colin Alexander, Nottingham Trent
University.
Chapter 5: Diaspora Publics as Disruptive Non-state Actors: The
Case of Turkey, Nur Uysal, DePaul University.-Chapter 6: Alternative Public
Diplomacy in an Authoritarian Regime: the Venezuelan Diaspora. Tomįs Pįez,
Global Venezuela Diaspora Project.-Chapter 7: Diaspora Protests Abroad and
Their Effect on Diplomatic Endeavors: The Ayotzinapas Case and the The Year
of Mexico in the UK Launch Tania Gómez Zapata, Universidad de las Américas
Puebla.-Chapter 8: Black Lives Matters Influence on the Image of the U.S. in
Latin America. Marķa De Moya, The University of Tennessee Knoxville.-Chapter
9: When Immigrants Oppose Diaspora-Sending Countries Policies: Fighting
Those Countries Who are Supposed to be Your Friends, Vanessa Bravo, Elon
University.-Chapter 10: Political Dissent, Diplomatic Representation, and the
#WomanLifeFreedom Movement. Sara Shaban, Seattle Pacific University.-Chapter
11: Belarusian Pro-Democracy Movement as a Public Diplomacy Actor: Identities
and International Engagement., Aliaksei Kazharski (Charles
University),Katsiaryna Lozka (Ghent University), Alesia Rudnik (Karlstad
University).-Chapter 12: Indigenous Dissent and Public Diplomacy during
Russias War in Ukraine: The Case of Free Buryatia Foundation, Anna Popkova,
Western Michigan University.-Part IV: Conclusion
Anna Popkova is an Associate Professor of public relations and strategic communication at Western Michigan University School of Communication and an allied faculty member at the Global and International Studies program.
