Journal of Communication Management: Volume 27 Issue 2

Guest editorial: Promoting citizenship through international public engagement. Research perspectives on public, organisational and civil society diplomacy

Civil society diplomacy: characterizing collective and connective actions for a shared cause

This study proposes a description of the civil society diplomacy that emerged in the early solutions found to fight the COVID-19 crisis. The author analyses this concept as the…

Advocacy and the role of human rights organizations in the Brazilian legislative branch: Rede Justiça Criminal campaigns

This study aims to understand, from the analysis of the work of a Brazilian network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), how advocacy on human rights issues is developed to…

Diaspora diplomacy and modes of engagement: the case of Romanian Diaspora in the UK

The current study aims to map the existent modes of engagement used by both individual and organisational actors of Romanian diaspora community in the UK to build public…

Profiling a niche actor of civil society diplomacy: the unattached diplomat

The purpose of this study is to define the communicational profile of unattached diplomats and explore the viability of state-centric concepts such as citizen diplomacy when…

Environmental diplomacy: from transnational policies to the role of ambassadors – the contribution of David Attenborough (2018–2020)

The concept of environmental diplomacy appears associated with events (conventions) promoted between states and transnational organisations to discuss aspects related to…

Climate change framing in the communication of CSR policies: the Secil Group example

The cement industry's environmental implications place climate change at the centre of sector organisations' corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies, such as the Secil…

Public diplomacy in an age of perpetual crisis: assessing the EU's strategic narratives through six crises

The purpose of this research is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the EU's public diplomacy – towards both domestic and external audiences – during times of crisis. The…

Analysing public diplomacy on Twitter with the MARPE Diplo methodological framework: the case of the European external action service

The European External Action Service (EEAS) is a relatively new diplomatic service established in 2010. In previous analyses, the authors noted a dominance of security and foreign…

Flawed public diplomacy: when Croatia Instagram Riviera narrative destination branding ignores dark tourism amateurs

This article tackles Croatian public diplomacy, destination and nation branding vis-à-vis an emerging Instagram trend to publish dark tourism related pictures sometimes using the…

Building peace and citizenship through cultural and public diplomacy

This article analyzes an approach to public diplomacy that involves leveraging local voices. It demonstrates the power of culture, particularly in collective settings such as…

An intermestic approach to China's public diplomacy: a case study of Beijing's COVID-19 communication in the early stages

The aim of this study was to examine the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak and the international communication management of Chinese diplomats as a case for extending the…