Ellen Huijgh stands out in public diplomacy’s rise to a flourishing area of study and practice for her foundational insights, global perspectives, and innovative research. This valuable compilation of her academic work is a thought-provoking guide to public diplomacy’s multidisciplinary characteristics, complex domestic dimension, and the under-studied public diplomacy of sub-state and non-state actors.
Bruce Gregory, Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication, George Washington University, Washington DC.
The essays in this collection speak to Ellen Huijgh’s formidable spirit of academic inquiry—always challenging the traditional, the familiar, and the conventional—to reveal novel and critical distinctions in diplomacy’s evolving project. Ellen brought intense curiosity, uncompromising academic rigour, and a sharp critical eye to each project.
Caitlin Byrne, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane.
This book shows convincingly that there is a domestic dimension to public diplomacy that requires analytical attention. This ranges from practical ways of involving domestic actors in public diplomacy to conceptual issues related to how external identity projection reverberates in the domestic formation of political identities.
Jozef Bátora, Comenius University, Bratislava and Webster Vienna Private University, Vienna.
Students of public diplomacy looking into governments’ domestic engagement cannot overlook Ellen Huijgh’s formidable work. She was a pioneer of a perspective considered to be of growing importance and her global outlook remains exceptional.
Jan Melissen, Leiden University, Clingendael Institute, The Hague, and University of Antwerp.