Comparison of Public Diplomacy of the United States during the Presidency of "Donald Trump" and "Joe Biden"

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M.A. in Regional Studies, Researcher, Imam Hossein Comprehensive University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Public diplomacy, unlike its formal type, aims to influence the general public and audiences who apparently have no responsibility in the field of foreign policy but constitute the body of society. This type of diplomacy has become very prevalent in recent years and forms the basis of long and stable relations to secure interests for countries. The United States is one of the countries that has incurred a lot of costs in this area, striving to use all the tools of public diplomacy to achieve its foreign policy goals and has even established a separate division within the Department of State for this purpose. As the Biden administration has declared repairing the international image of America as one of its primary foreign policy objectives, one of their most important tools to achieve this goal is public diplomacy. The important question that arises is what changes has the public diplomacy of the United States undergone during the Biden administration compared to the Trump administration? In order to answer this question, a method of scholarly study has been used, based on a descriptive-analytical approach, and the necessary information has been collected from library resources. The result of comparing these two periods shows that the U.S. government in the Biden administration seeks to use past tools and the mainstream of international media to portray the past events as an exception to Donald Trump and to work on repairing America's image in the world.

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American Strategic Studies
Volume 3, Issue 1 - Serial Number 9
January 2024
Pages 47-68

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  • Receive Date: 07 August 2022
  • Revise Date: 21 March 2023
  • Accept Date: 31 December 2023

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