Public Diplomacy Experience: US Environmental Diplomacy

For nearly a decade, experts inside and outside of the United States government have been actively debating how to better engage the world through public diplomacy.Public diplomacy is the set of practices and actions by which a state seeks to inform and influence citizens of foreign countries in ways that promote its national interest.Since September 11, 2001, policymakers have increasingly acknowledged that anti-American sentiment can be viral, creating norms and spurring actions that threaten the United States and the security of our allies. So ‘environmental diplomacy’ remains nascent and contested in terms of definitions. For mainstream international relations schol- ars, the definitional frame is around negotiations between nation-states on environmental governance.