Document Type : Research Article
Authors
1 Assoc. Professor, Founder Director of International Relations and Security Studies Graduate Programs, Founder Head of Political Science Department, College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
2 Professor, Head of Political Science Department, College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
3 Senior Researcher, Oman Studies Center, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Abstract
The new instruments of public diplomacy are deepening and diversifying in the contemporary
world. Today, the range of phenomena that could be used as new tools of public diplomacy has
grown. Some of the new instruments in the new millennium could be highlighted as diaspora,
international conferences, scholarships, journals, advertorials, towering personalities, sport,
dominant culture, relations with Intergovernmental institutions, focus on international civil
society groups, news agencies, social media tools, cultural centers, universal kitchen, music and
exchange programs, in addition to the older ones.The number of these public diplomacy tools
that is updatedin this research is 37 as seen in the figure. Old public diplomacy tools are not easy
to reshape or create such as organizing diaspora, flouring your language, kitchen or culture. But
majority of the new public diplomacy tools could be created in a mid or short term such as
establishing university chairs, television channels, communicating social media groups,
organizing frequent international conferences, publishing journals, initiating quality movies and
serials and establishing good relations with the international NGOs, CSGs and think-tanks. All of
those instruments need money, but this should be perceived as soft power investment
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