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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.
List of contents
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. Tomás Páez, Global Venezuela Diaspora Project.-Chapter 7: Diaspora Protests Abroad and Their Effect on Diplomatic Endeavors: The Ayotzinapa s Case and the The Year of Mexico in the UK Launch Tania Gómez Zapata, Universidad de las Américas Puebla.-Chapter 8: Black Lives Matter s Influence on the Image of the U.S. in Latin America. María 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 Russia s War in Ukraine: The Case of Free Buryatia Foundation, Anna Popkova, Western Michigan University.-Part IV: Conclusion
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
