Communication Strategies of Governments and NGOs

1. Front Matter

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2. Summits in an age of global governance

   • Manuel Adolphsen

   Pages 17-25

3. Public discourse beyond national borders

   • Manuel Adolphsen

   Pages 27-58

4. Summits as strategic communication resources

   • Manuel Adolphsen

   Pages 59-93

5. Investigating strategic communication at summits

   • Manuel Adolphsen

   Pages 95-105

6. Structuring the analysis and laying foundations

   • Manuel Adolphsen

   Pages 107-116

7. Political actors’ communication structures, processes, and preplanned strategies

   • Manuel Adolphsen

   Pages 117-161

8. Short-term interactions between summit PR and summit proceedings

   • Manuel Adolphsen

   Pages 163-192

9. The summit as world stage?

   • Manuel Adolphsen

   Pages 193-212

10. Back Matter

    Pages 213-227

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Processes of global governance are mostly invisible to ordinary citizens, due to an overall lack of accompanying transnational public discourse. However, there are exceptional occasions on which media around the world do pay attention to global governance: high-level summits, such as the UN climate change conferences. Through a detailed case study of UN climate summits, Manuel Adolphsen investigates the transnational communication strategies and behind-the-scenes coordination processes that prominent governments and NGOs carry out on such occasions. His research reveals political actors’ conscious use of summits as public diplomacy resources as well as the prevalence of on-site coproduction routines among journalists and PR professionals. Summits feature complex public diplomacy constellations interweaving transnational, international, and also solely domestic processes.

• Climate Politics
• International Relations
• Political Summits
• Public Diplomacy
• Public Relations
• Transnational Communication

• Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

  Manuel Adolphsen

Manuel Adolphsen completed his PhD as a research associate at the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Mannheim. He is a communications consultant in Berlin.

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