Public Diplomacy and the Politics of Uncertainty

Paweł Surowiec is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Communication at the University of Sheffield, UK. Ilan Manor is a Digital Diplomacy Scholar at the University of Oxford, UK.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Certainty of Uncertainty and Public Diplomacy.- Part I: Heteropolar World, Global Uncertainty and Public Diplomacy.- Chapter 2: The “American Century” is Over – the US Global Leadership Narrative, Uncertainty and Public Diplomacy.- Chapter 3: From External Propaganda to Media Diplomacy: the Construction of the ‘Chinese Dream’ in President Xi Jinping’s New Year Speeches.- Chapter 4: Climate Change Begins at Home: City Diplomacy in the Age of the Anthropocene.- Chapter 5: ‘Rough Winds do shake the Darling Buds of May’: Theresa May, British Public Diplomacy and Reputational Security in the era of Brexit.- Part II: Regime Shifts, Institutional Uncertainty and Public Diplomacy.- Chapter 6: Public Diplomacy in the Age of ‘Post-Reality’.- Chapter 7: The Manufacturing of Uncertainty in Public Diplomacy: A Rhetorical Approach.- Chapter 8: Russian Public Diplomacy: Questioning Certainties in Uncertain Times.- Chapter 9: The Confucius Institute and Relationship Management: Uncertainty Management of Chinese Public Diplomacy in Africa.- Part III: Public Diplomacy Practice and Uncertainty Management.- Chapter 10: Managing Disinformation Through Public Diplomacy.- Chapter 11: Economic Determinants of India’s Public Diplomacy Towards South Asia.- Chapter 12: Managing Uncertainty: The Everyday Global Politics and Post-9/11 US Public Diplomacy.- Chapter 13:Foreign Correspondence and Digital Public Diplomacy.- Conclusions.