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The United States after unipolarity: repairing the American image, one tweet at a time

Kelley, Robert (2011) The United States after unipolarity: repairing the American image, one tweet at a time. IDEAS reports - special reports, Kitchen, Nicholas ORCID: 0000-0001-8784-9012 (ed.) (SR009). LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Abstract

For nearly all of the Bush administration, America’s standing in most parts of the world remained dismally low. The reputation it left behind after 2008 stood ready for a dramatic overhaul with the arrival of the popular Barack Obama. Beginning almost immediately with a positive new message offered to the Muslim world, Obama’s public diplomacy is decidedly less notable for its substantive achievements than the strides he and Secretary Hillary Clinton have made in modernising the means of public diplomatic discourse. During its time in office the Obama administration has worked to broaden and accelerate communications with audiences abroad by inserting social media and technology exchanges into the toolkit of the public diplomat. Yet the administration’s tendency toward strategic incoherence means public diplomacy strategy remains a mystery. As the content of public diplomacy falls behind innovations in methods to deliver it, one has to wonder: what is the world hearing?

Item Type: Monograph (Report)
Official URL: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/Home.aspx
Additional Information: © 2011 The Author
Divisions: IGA: LSE IDEAS
Subjects: J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited: 04 May 2012 12:38
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 22:17
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/43479

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