Place Branding & Public Diplomacy

📔 We have two #onlinefirst #bookreviews! 1️⃣ Hicham Echattabi هشام الشطابي reviews "Place Branding and Marketing from a Policy Perspective: Building Effective Strategies for Places" edited by Vincent Mabillard, Martial Pasquier, and Renaud Vuignier, PhD https://lnkd.in/eHRM3bJm 2️⃣ Nicholas Cull reviews Diplomacy’s Public Dimension: Practitioners as Change Agents in Foreign Relations by Bruce Gregory https://lnkd.in/exHXQqhA Interested in writing a book review for Place Branding & Public Diplomacy? Reach out to our book review editor Cecilia Cassinger!

🚀 New Issue Alert! 🚀 The latest issue of Place Branding and Public Diplomacy (Vol. 20, Issue 3, September 2024) is out now! Dive into a collection of insightful articles and case studies that explore the dynamic fields of public diplomacy and place branding. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s inside: 🔖 Public diplomacy: a framework-based literature review and decentering research agenda Andrea Pavón-Guinea and Mónica Codina 🔖 Place branding: is it public policy, or isn’t it? Mihails Potapovs 🔖 City brand coolness in the eye of the beholder: an extended conceptualization of city brand coolness and its dimensions Ulun AKTURAN and Deniz KUTER 🔖 Bringing multidisciplinary perspectives of country image: factors influencing the perceptions of Chinese youth toward the images of Russia and Ukraine Linlan Xu and Chunying Wen 🔖 Mapping the role of public actors in the constitution of place brand publics in social media Andrea Lucarelli, Christofer Laurell, PhD, and Efe Sevin 🔖 When place brand and place logo matches: VRIO applied to place branding Fabiana Gondim Mariutti, Vivian Iara Strehlau, and Eliana Herrero 🔖 Public diplomacy through development assistance: China’s 10,000 Villages Project across Africa Angela Lewis 🔖 Nation branding as a tool to attract foreign direct investments: a case study of Qatar Aymen A. Mohib, and Conor Carroll 🔖 Can numbers tell the story? An investigation on the impact of three place branding and marketing campaigns 2003–2019 on the attraction of new residents to the Isle of Man Dr Florida Clements Case Studies 🔖 Placecinemaking or cinema for placemaking: a reflexive validation Marco Bevolo, PhD, Adj. Prof. and Stefano Di Polito 🔖 Connecting place branding to social and governance constructs in Johannesburg, South Africa Zenzile E. Mbinza Book Reviews 🔖 Nation branding and sports diplomacy: country image games in times of change Dr. Gyorgy Szondi 🔖 New logics of public diplomacy in the disconnected world Dr Natalia Grincheva Stay ahead in the field with these cutting-edge insights! 📚✨ #PlaceBranding #PublicDiplomacy #Research #AcademicJournal #CityBranding #NationBranding #PublicPolicy (And please feel free to tag the authors we could not tag in the comments. We will update the post as we go).

🔈 Deadline approaching The abstract submission deadline for our special issue co-edited by Olga Kolotouchkina and Laura Ripoll González on "Olympic and Paralympic Games: their legacy in the image and reputation of hosting cities and nations" is September 15th. For more information, please visit: https://lnkd.in/duUQAsk

Exciting news! Our 5-year impact factor has increased from 1.5 to 1.9 in 2023! Thank you to our authors, reviewers and readers for your support. Here's to continued excellence in place branding and public diplomacy! https://lnkd.in/eBXUDHu8

New Call for Papers - Upcoming Special Issue 📕📕Olympic and Paralympic Games: their legacy in the image and reputation of hosting cities and nations Guest Co-editors Olga Kolotouchkina & Laura Ripoll González The deadline for submitting abstracts is 15th September 2024 and the deadline for submitting full papers is 15th December 2024. More info: https://lnkd.in/duUQAsk

🚀 Exciting News! Our latest issue (You know, Vol 20, Iss 2) is now live! 📚 This issue features six original articles, four in-depth case studies, and one book review, offering the best in #placebranding and #publicdiploamcy research. Read the full issue here: https://lnkd.in/e2i6exa4 Scroll down to see our table of contents! #AcademicResearch #NewIssue #PlaceBranding #PublicDiplomacy 🔖 Evaluations of Guangzhou’s brand building through intangible cultural heritage: a brand equity model Jiayin Zhang, Min Wang, Yinbin Lin https://lnkd.in/eFj9e86g 🔖 Measuring soft power via positive spontaneous actions of foreign publics: The harder power of voluntary experience, voluntary megaphoning, and general interest SunHa Yeo, Hyelim Lee & Alex Eschbach https://lnkd.in/eCQfR-YN 🔖 Exploration of the concept of brand love in city branding: antecedents and consequences Davood Ghorbanzadeh, K. D. V. Prasad, Natalia Alekseevna Prodanova, Iskandar Muda, Joko Suryono & Nafisa Yuldasheva https://lnkd.in/eX-uCG2Z 🔖 Decoding Nordic cities: uncovering multi-level place experiences from tweets for effective city branding Viriya Taecharungroj SFIPM, Olga Rauhut Kompaniets https://lnkd.in/eTfFQ9f7 🔖 The implementation of the digital diplomacy of the United States, the UK, and China in Kenya Ong’ong’a Daniel Oloo https://lnkd.in/eFvJttRY 🔖 Theorizing network diplomacy on Twitter: a symbolic interactionist approach Saif Shahin, Q. Elyse Huang https://lnkd.in/eGxq2MZM 🔖 Public diplomacy and nation branding in action: Swiss Embassy's participation in the Night of Museums Event in Warsaw Anna Kobierecka & Michał Marcin Kobierecki https://lnkd.in/ecvuJQgB 🔖 Clashes of cultures at the FIFA World Cup: Reflections on soft power, nation building, and sportswashing in Qatar 2022 Dr. Yoav Dubinsky https://lnkd.in/eNMwdHEf 🔖 Exploring place branding in the Global South: the case of Johannesburg, South Africa (#openaccess) Zenzile Mbinza https://lnkd.in/ev6tCTi2 🔖 The multiple edges of gastrodiplomacy: the paradoxes of the Basque case Dennis Sorondo Salazar https://lnkd.in/eThY5m4V 🔖 Diplomacy for Professionals and Everyone by Alisher Faizullaev, Brill | Nijhoff, 2022 | Series: diplomatic studies 1872–8863; volume 20 Tomasz Kamiński https://lnkd.in/eB2J6CbA

Start your Thursday off by reading our articles in our newest issues! Comment below which article was your favorite from #placebranding&publicdiplomacy from our march issue! https://lnkd.in/e6xzTUKs

Did you know that April is #stressawarenessmonth? Have you ever found yourself stressed out about how to navigate AI's new role in the industry of #placebranding and #publicdiplomacy? Check out this article that may help relieve your stress in the matter. 🧘📚  https://lnkd.in/evjeASRJ 

Here are some of the jobs and elections former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln lost before becoming the timeless figure we know him as today. Maybe your work has been rejected in the past, but Place Branding & Public Diplomacy cares about the present. Submit to us your work and it may spark your big breakthrough! #motivation

In April, we wear blue! It’s #AutismAwarenessMonth, and here at Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, we believe everyone should be celebrated and therefore accept submissions from people across the neurological spectrum.