International representation strategies for stateless nations: The case of Catalonia’s cultural diplomacy

Vela, Jordi de San Eugenio; Xifra, Jordi

doi:10.1057/pb.2014.17

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“…8 Other cases of secession (e.g. Catalonia, Kurdistan, Montenegro, Québec, South Sudan) also involve forecasting substantive foreign policy roles, particularly given the consequences for the roles of the home state and the roles of others (Darmanovic, 2003; McHugh, 2015; Vela and Xifra, 2015; Voller, 2015, 2016). These cases, we argue, illustrate our broadest point: that socialisation begins before statehood.…”

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Casting for a sovereign role: Socialising an aspirant state in the Scottish independence referendum

Beasley

Kaarbo

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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This article examines international reactions to Scotland’s 2014 bid for independence as an instance of socialisation of an aspirant state, what we term ‘pre-socialisation’. Building on and contributing to research on state socialisation and role theory, this study proposes a nexus between roles and sovereignty. This nexus has three components: sovereignty itself is a role casted for by an actor; the sovereign role is entangled with the substantive foreign policy roles the actor might play; and the sovereign role implicates the substantive foreign policy roles of other actors. The Scottish debate on independence provides an effective laboratory to develop and explore these theoretical dimensions of pre-socialisation, revealing the contested value and meaning of sovereignty, the possible roles that an independent Scotland could play, and the projected implications for the role of the UK and other international actors. Our analysis of the Scottish case can provide insights for other cases of pre-socialisation and is more empirically significant following the UK’s 2016 referendum to leave the European Union.

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Casting for a sovereign role: Socialising an aspirant state in the Scottish independence referendum

Beasley

Kaarbo

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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“…In this sense, a consensus has not been reached regarding the agent and target of public diplomacy initiatives: whilst some authors constrain the agency of public diplomacy practices to state actors (Hartig, 2015), it is equally accepted by others to include a broad range of nonstate actors: from NGOs (Gregory, 2011) to business organizations (White, 2015), virtual states (Melki & Jabado, 2016), stateless nations (Vela & Xifra, 2015) or even private citizens (Goodman, 2006).…”

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«It’s the context, stupid»: The European Union’s public diplomacy in times of ontological insecurity

Pavón-Guinea

2023

Communication & Society

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Public diplomacy, despite its numerous and varied definitions, is essentially a communications process. By engaging the academic literature of public diplomacy with Lasswell’s model of communication and Braddock’s rearticulation of his model, this paper proposes an integrated framework that allows for the systematization of public diplomacy research. The framework is composed of the independent variable of context, which influences a set of dependent variables: the actors, publics, messages, objectives and tools of public diplomacy. Accordingly, this paper argues that public diplomacy research has been traditionally approached from an agent-centric perspective, and despite its obvious significance, the influence of context has been understudied. In order to test the utility of the model, the paper applies it to the case study of the European Union’s public diplomacy during two different settings. First, it will expose the main characteristics of the EU’s public diplomacy during times of globalization, where the EU’s public diplomacy was characterized by its normativity. Subsequently, the current context of deglobalization and de-europeanization will be introduced and analyzed through the following research question: what happens to the EU’s public diplomacy when the founding myth upon which it is constructed is under threat? By altering the context, one can easily see an emerging but clear transformation of the characteristics of the EU’s public diplomacy. By analyzing official, policy, and legal documents, and engaging with the academic literature on the topic, the paper concludes that the main objective of the EU’s public diplomacy in a changing world should be to provide for ontological security through (emotional) strategic metanarratives.

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National Ways to Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: The Case for Institutional Comparison

Carta

Badillo

2019

Cultural Diplomacy in Europe

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International representation strategies for stateless nations: The case of Catalonia’s cultural diplomacy

Cited by 12 publications

References 40 publications

Casting for a sovereign role: Socialising an aspirant state in the Scottish independence referendum

Casting for a sovereign role: Socialising an aspirant state in the Scottish independence referendum

«It’s the context, stupid»: The European Union’s public diplomacy in times of ontological insecurity

National Ways to Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: The Case for Institutional Comparison

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