A historical–discursive analytical method for studying the formulation of public diplomacy institutions

Zhao Alexandre Huang ()
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Zhao Alexandre Huang: Université Paris Nanterre

Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 2022, vol. 18, issue 3, No 2, 204-215

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this study was to present a method of interpretative sociology for studying the formation and development of national public diplomacy institutions. Our goal was to apply cognitive analysis to public policy and to use a historical-discursive method to interpret the institutionalization of public diplomacy by a government. For us, cognitive analysis of public policy coordinates new perspectives and methods, especially the fruits of historical and discursive institutionalism, both to identify the cognitive and normative frames of policy formulation and to outline the dynamic relationships among institutions and political actors. By conducting an illustrative case study of China’s public diplomacy institutionalization, we demonstrated the potential of historical–discursive analysis to shed light on public diplomacy institutional change and various social and rhetorical phenomena related to Beijing’s efforts to rationalize and legitimize its foreign policy.

Keywords: Public diplomacy; Cognitive analysis of public policy; Historical–discursive method; Interpretative sociology methodology; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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