Communication strategies of governments and NGOs [electronic resource] : engineering global discourse at high-level international summits / Manuel Adolphsen.
2014
P95.8
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Communication strategies of governments and NGOs [electronic resource] : engineering global discourse at high-level international summits / Manuel Adolphsen.
Author
Adolphsen, Manuel, author.
ISBN
9783658055042 electronic book
3658055049 electronic book
9783658055035
3658055049 electronic book
9783658055035
Published
Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 211 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-658-05504-2 doi
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P95.8
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.014
Summary
Processes of global governance are mostly invisible to ordinary citizens, due to an overall lack of accompanying transnational public discourse. However, there are exceptional occasions on which media around the world do pay attention to global governance: high-level summits, such as the UN climate change conferences. Through a detailed case study of UN climate summits, Manuel Adolphsen investigates the transnational communication strategies and behind-the-scenes coordination processes that prominent governments and NGOs carry out on such occasions. His research reveals political actors conscious use of summits as public diplomacy resources as well as the prevalence of on-site coproduction routines among journalists and PR professionals. Summits feature complex public diplomacy constellations interweaving transnational, international, and also solely domestic processes.
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"Inaugural dissertation submitted to the School of Humanities at the University of Mannheim, 2012."
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
Summits in an Age of Global Governance
Public Discourse beyond National Borders
Investigating Strategic Communication at Summits
Political Actors? Communication Structures, Processes, and Preplanned Strategies
Short-Term Interactions between Summit PR and Summit Proceedings.
Public Discourse beyond National Borders
Investigating Strategic Communication at Summits
Political Actors? Communication Structures, Processes, and Preplanned Strategies
Short-Term Interactions between Summit PR and Summit Proceedings.