TY - JOUR
T1 - Making sense of citizen diplomats
T2 - The people of Duluth, Minnesota, as international actors
AU - Sharp, Paul
PY - 2001/5
Y1 - 2001/5
N2 - What is citizen diplomacy and how do we assess its significance? These are important questions because of the recent upsurge in international activity of this kind, and because how we answer them says a great deal about how we "do IR." By examining citizen diplomacy in Duluth, Minnesota, this paper offers a typology of citizen diplomats organized around the ideas of who or what they are representing and to whom. Assessing the significance of citizen diplomacy is a more difficult problem since individuals tend to generate a priori answers to it based on our respective theoretical orientations to IR as a whole. As a solution to this problem, the paper proposes a "diplomatic" approach which focuses on both the representation of differences to one another and the professional commitment which diplomats have to maintaining the practices and institutions which make such relations possible.
AB - What is citizen diplomacy and how do we assess its significance? These are important questions because of the recent upsurge in international activity of this kind, and because how we answer them says a great deal about how we "do IR." By examining citizen diplomacy in Duluth, Minnesota, this paper offers a typology of citizen diplomats organized around the ideas of who or what they are representing and to whom. Assessing the significance of citizen diplomacy is a more difficult problem since individuals tend to generate a priori answers to it based on our respective theoretical orientations to IR as a whole. As a solution to this problem, the paper proposes a "diplomatic" approach which focuses on both the representation of differences to one another and the professional commitment which diplomats have to maintaining the practices and institutions which make such relations possible.
KW - Citizen
KW - Diplomacy
KW - Duluth
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U2 - 10.1111/1528-3577.00045
DO - 10.1111/1528-3577.00045
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034997428
SN - 1528-3577
VL - 2
SP - 131
EP - 150
JO - International Studies Perspectives
JF - International Studies Perspectives
IS - 2
ER -