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14 Hague J. Dipl. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.intyb/hagjd0014 and id is 1 raw text is: THE HAGUE JOURNAL OF DIPLOMACY 14 (2019) 1-5 H D B RI LL NIJHOFF brill.com/hjd Introduction: Debating Public Diplomacy Jan Melissen Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, 2511 DP The Hague, The Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael', 2597 VH The Hague, The Netherlands; University of Antwerp, 2ooo Antwerp, Belgium jmelissen@fgga.leidenuniv.n! Jian Wang Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 9oo89-0281, United States wangjian@usc.edu As its title - Debating Public Diplomacy - indicates, this special issue of The Hague Journal ofDiplomacy (HJD) is more debate-focused than HJD's previous thematic issues, which form a hallmark of the journal. It intends to stimulate new thinking on public diplomacy in our turbulent world. There are many def- initions of public diplomacy, which, for the purposes of this special issue, we generally describe as a country's efforts to create and maintain relationships with publics in other societies to advance policies and actions. The twelve es- says collected in this volume seek to reflect on recent developments in the global information sphere that present new challenges for public diplomacy practitioners and, indeed, for academic analysis in the years ahead. If any con- sensus exists among the authors, it is that the present state of affairs across the globe constitutes a crisis, which is above all fomented by resurgent geopoliti- cal rivalry and technological change impacting on international politics and state-society relations - and hence on the practice of public diplomacy. The articles are more argumentative than regular research papers; they are shorter and forward-looking. We have commissioned the essays in this issue from thought-leaders, senior scholars and up-and-coming writers in the field, and we have pressed the au- thors to consider observable trends affecting public diplomacy strategies and practices. The analyses look at public diplomacy from multiple thematic an- gles, and this volume includes the suigeneris case study of China as the world's most prominent emerging power. China's perspective serves as an important @ KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2019 DOI:10.1163/1871191X-14101064

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