Asymmetric public diplomacy : the King Abdullah Scholarship Programme in Saudi Arabia

• Main Author: Bouchaib Silm
• Other Authors: Ana Cristina Dias Alves
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/150659
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis proposes to unpack meaningful distinctive features of the public diplomacy dynamics unfolding between Saudi Arabia and the United States in the post 9/11 period. This investigation aims to offer additional insights to understand the role and the conduct of public diplomacy in international relations by focusing on the perspective of a non-western middle power. Its main contribution to the study of this academic field rests on departing from the classic understanding of public diplomacy as a ‘one-way’ flow to offer instead, an understanding and theoretical insights of the particularities of public diplomacy conducted in asymmetric contexts.