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Some argue that public diplomacy is not as strong and effective as it could be. Many of these critics argue that public diplomacy should be privatized. Others defend the current public diplomacy structure and results. The main question that this essay addresses is: “Should public diplomacy be privatized?—and what does that mean?” Furthermore, what should the relationship between the public and private sector be, with respect to public diplomacy?
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The primary forms of data collection for this essay were interviews and secondary data review. This report seeks to go beyond the excellent essay by a respected scholar that has asked the important questions and laid out the basic issues: Kathleen R. Fitzpatrick, “Privatized Public Diplomacy,” in ed. Philip Seib, Toward a New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), p. 155.
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Kravec, N.G. (2011). Should Public Diplomacy Be Privatized?. In: Rugh, W.A. (eds) The Practice of Public Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118652_13
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