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Beata Ociepka currently works at the Instytut Studiów Międzynarodowych/ Institute of International Studies, University of Wroclaw. She is the Head of Public Diplomacy Lab, newly established in 2020. Beata does research in Political Communication, Public Diplomacy, Foreign Policy and International Communication. Her current project is focused on Years and Seasons of Culture as Media Events and framed by New Public Diplomacy.
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In 2014, the EU imposed sanctions on the Russian Federation as a consequence of the annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine. At the same time, Austria, the UK, and Germany celebrated cultural diplomacy events with Russia, whereas Poland cancelled the Polish Year planned for 2015 in Russia. Many member countries of the European Union und...
The objective of the article is to check the functionality of the leading concepts explaining the role of media in international relations and foreign policy in the fourth era of political communication. The author focuses on the “CNN effect” and “manufacturing consent” concepts to illustrate how the Almond–Lippman consensus was rejected. The study...
Celem przeprowadzonego badania było zidentyfikowanie źródeł informacji o kryzysie migracyjnym na wschodniej granicy Polski w 2021 r. Ponieważ polski rząd wprowadził stan wyjątkowy w strefie przygranicznej, a dziennikarzom zakazał do niej wstępu, powstała sytuacja wyjątkowa, szczególnie nadająca się do badania źródeł i kierunków przepływu informacji...
Cultural diplomacy has a long tradition and good reputation as implementing culture for supporting any foreign policy objectives or promoting the national culture don't look controversial at the first sight. In the cosmopolitan sense the objective of cultural diplomacy is to achieve more understanding with partners abroad. However, the ways authori...
Die Publikation ist ein Teil des Projektes "Akteure, Felder, Wege-deutsch-pol-nische Kommunikation: Miteinander und übereinander". Das Projekt wird von dem Deutschen Polen Institut und dem Institut für Öffentliche Angelegenheit-en dank der Förderung durch die Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung durchgeführt. Projektkoordination: Małgorzata Kopk...
Journalists and NGOs not Allowed: The EU Eastern Border as a Domestic Space of Public Diplomacy
Abstract: The conflicts any country is confronted with can cause the shrinking of the domestic spaces of public diplomacy. This is what happened during the crisis on the Eastern border of the EU in 2021, where the Polish government faced with the challen...
CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN SOCIAL MEDIA: A CASE STUDY The online tools of communication have an impact on cultural diplomacy, which enables the governments to include potential partners into the participation in culture and at the same time to win them for their foreign policy goals. The objective of this article is to check the hypothesis saying that s...
This article discusses the European Union (EU) member states’ cultural institutes as nodes of cultural diplomacy networks and a network approach in the analysis of cultural diplomacy at the time of Russia’s war in eastern Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea in 2014. This study’s hypothesis is that the international crisis over the war in Ukraine p...
The purpose of this study is to explore the main rationale of Polish cultural diplomacy, as it was developed by the governmental and non-governmental actors at the time of international conflict. Focusing on the years following Poland’s EU accession (2004) and particularly the Polish Year in Russia planned for 2015 and cancelled in 2014, this study...
Translation (by the publisher) of an article in Polish, published in "Przegląd Zachodni" 3, 2019.
Celem tekstu jest rewizja pojęcia komunikowania globalnego na podstawie literatury ostatnich lat i wyników badań nad miękką siłą i dyplomacją publiczną, prowadzonych przez autorkę. Ta dziedzina to jeden z nurtów współczesnych badań nad komunikowaniem globalnym. W ujęciu autorki globalność komunikowania występuje wtedy, gdy przekazy są powszechnie d...
The German foreign cultural policy has been evoking more and more attention of academia. The aim of the article, entitled „German foreign cultural policy after the reunification – security, dialogue, promotion” is to discuss its development and stress its specifics after the reunification of Germany in 1990. The analysis of the German foreign cultu...
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In this article, entitled “Where is Poland? Constructing the State’s Geopolitical Position in Central Europe”, the author peruses the concept of country location, understood as governmental policy aimed at the redefinition of geopolitical position of the country and its role in international relations, and analyses it in the frame of gove...
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This paper offers an insight into the early stage of the author’s research about Years and Seasons of Culture, which are performed by governments and seen as tools of their cultural diplomacy. In the study, Years and Seasons are called “holidays of cultural diplomacy” in line with Dayan and Katz concept of media events. The main goal of research, w...
This paper offers an insight into the early stage of the author’s research about Years and Seasons of Culture, which are performed by governments and seen as tools of their cultural diplomacy. In the study, Years and Seasons are called “holidays of cultural diplomacy” in line with Dayan and Katz concept of media events. The main goal of research, t...
Streszczenie Dyplomacja publiczna stała się istotnym narzędziem miękkiej siły, stosowanym zarówno przez supermocarstwa, jak i państwa małe i średnie. Do strategii polityki zagranicznej wprowadzają ją również systemy autorytarne. Nowa dyplomacja publiczna rozwija się od około 15 lat. Jej powstanie wynika zarówno z rozwoju nowych technologii komuniko...
Studies on public diplomacy have been quite advanced since at least 2001. The public diplomacy phenomenon attracted the attention of researchers as more and more governments implemented public diplomacy as a tool of their foreign policy. This article aims to summarize the author’s case studies and to discuss the impact that research on public diplo...
This book analyzes when and how Poland implemented public diplomacy. The author explains it as a form of external political communication of governments conducted in cooperation with non-state actors to position the country internation¬ally. The Polish case illustrates how a mid-size country in Europe attempts to impact the public opinion formation...
Poland, as all the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, was a target of Western international broadcasting before 1989. After the Velvet Revolution, the former receiver became communicator. Poland undertook efforts to promote democracy in Belarus, while reaching the audience in the country via a television station, basing these e...
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union (EU) symbolize the EU’s shift to the east. They brought in 12 new member countries, including ten former communist states—Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia—constituting a region named Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This c...
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The paper has the objective to present public diplomacy as a discipline requiring interdisciplinary approach. At the current stage of development of the discipline, the approach rooted in the theory of international relations is dominating. The author suggests inclusion of the tools used for the analysis of political communication into th...
The Impact of New Technologies on International Communication: The Case of Public Diplomacy
Beata Ociepka
The events in North Africa in the spring of 2011 again attracted the attention of the world public opinion to social media because of their use by opposition for initiatinga social change. The paper raises the question whether social media mig...
Since the conclusion of the 1991 Treaty on Neighbourly Relations, Germany and Poland have come a long, long way on the road to understanding. But mutual perceptions within each country's society are still instable: In times of political tension, old prejudices and fears are easily resuscitated and politically instrumentalised. Public diplomacy and...
The notion of public diplomacy has been used in international relations and in international communication studies since about the mid‐1960s. It originates from US foreign policy from the period of the Cold War. Public diplomacy is understood as a dialogical communication between governments and other actors on the stage of international relations...
Populism became a signi! cant factor of political debates in Eastern and Western countries of the EU and a new force in European party systems in the nineties. The frame for the discussion on populism is made by the representative form of democracy and responding to it dual system of media of communication. The popularity of populist parties and mo...
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