Beschreibung
As a bridge between Europe and Asia, the West and the Middle East, Turkey sees its influence increasing. Its foreign policy is becoming more complex, making sophisticated public diplomacy an essential tool. This volume - the first in English about the subject - examines this rising power's path toward being a more consequential global player.
Autorenporträt
Philip Seib is Vice Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, USA, where he is also Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy and Professor of International Relations. He served from 2009-2013 as director of USC's Center on Public Diplomacy. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy; New Media and the New Middle East; The Al Jazeera Effect; Toward A New Public Diplomacy; Global Terrorism and New Media; Al Jazeera English; and Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era. Melody Mohebi received a PhD from the Department of Social Policy of the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. In addition to an academic focus on Iranian civil society, she has worked extensively with nongovernmental institutions. Her first book, The Formation of her Civil Society in Modern Iran (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) academic work, draws on in-depth elite interviews and documents to investigate how and why Iranian reformists used the language and concept of civil society to enhance the reformists' positions of power. Özlem Tür is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Her main expertise includes the political economy of the Middle East, Arab-Israeli Conflict and Turkey's relations with the Middle East (especially Syria, Israel and Lebanon). Ça?da? Üngör is an Associate Professor at Marmara University's Department of Political Science and International Relations in Istanbul, Turkey. She holds a PhD in East Asian history from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her publications in English and Turkish concentrate on different aspects of Sino-Turkish relations, modern Chinese history and politics. She is the co-editor of Turkey in the Cold War: Ideology and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). K?vanç Ulusoy is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Istanbul University, Turkey. He was previously a Fulbright Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School (2012-2013), a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2003-2004), a Swedish Institute Fellow at the Stockholm University (2003) and a Madrid Diplomatic School Fellow (1996-97). His areas of research include regime change and democratization, Turkish politics and foreign policy, Turkey-EU relations and Spanish politics. Gaye Ash Sancar is an assistant professor at Galatasaray University Faculty of Communication, Turkey, in the Public Relations Department. She received her PhD. from Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences, Turkey, in the Public Relations Program. Her publications concentrate on public relations and public diplomacy. She is the author of International Public Relations and Public Diplomacy (In Turkish). Vedat Demir is professor on the faculty of communication at Istanbul University, Turkey. He has served as a visiting scholar at Ithaca College and Cornell University in the United States. He is the author of Public Diplomacy and Soft Power, Media and Politics in Turkey and other books. Marija Mitrovi? Bo kovi? completed a dual masters program conducted by the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. She earned her bachelor's degree from the International Relations Department of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia. She wrote her Master's thesis on Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Balkans: The influence of traditional determinants on Davuto?lu's conception of Turkey-Balkan relations. Ms. Mitrovi? Bo kovi? is currently engaged in different EU projects in Serbia dealing with institution building in the area of judiciary, fundamental rights, justice, freedom and security. Alida Vracic is the director and a co-founder of Populari, a think tank based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and specialized in providing evide
