Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, Nancy Snow & Philip M Taylor

The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy is edited by Nancy Snow and Philip M. Taylor. It contains 29 articles examining public diplomacy from every perspective. It looks at public diplomacy’s role in business, the arts, the military, and exchange programmes, and includes profiles of US, UK, German, Japanese, Chinese, Central & Eastern European and Australian public diplomacy. It is, in short, one of the preeminent sources in the field.

Published in 2009, the editors attended the BDI’s 2006 Cliveden Conference, as did the majority of the contributors.

The handbook is available for purchase on Amazon.

The book received very favourable reviews, including the following endorsements:

“Snow, Taylor, and a distinguished group of scholars have produced the definitive sourcebook on one of the most important subjects of our time. This collection offers a highly readable and comprehensive look at how the U.S. has veered off course in the battle for the hearts and minds of much of the world. This is a must-read for students and scholars, and should be placed in the hands of the policymakers who inherit the challenge of restoring the public image and credibility of this wayward superpower.”
—Lance Bennett, Professor of Political Science & Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication, Director, Center for Communication and Civic Engagement, University of Washington

“Since 9/11, public diplomacy has emerged as a critical, but little understood, component of foreign policy. This Handbook explains what it is, what it isn’t, who does it well, and who doesn’t. In short, it is essential to understanding how countries present themselves to the world.” —Ambassador Cunthia P. Schneider, PhH, Distinguished Fellow in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetwon University, Senior Non Resident Fellow, Brookings Institution

“Snow and Taylor’s Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy offers valuable and timely advice about China as it struggles to tell its story of Tibet and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The editors take a global perspective to address the public diplomacy issue in a well-admired effort to build a global dialogue between the East and the West.” —Li Xiguang, Dean, International Center for Communication Studies, Tsinghua University Vice-Chairman, Journalism Education Committee of Chinese Ministry of Education