الدبلوماسية العامة الفلسطينية : الرياضة نموذجا للقوة الناعمة

Other Title(s)

Palestinian public diplomacy : sport as soft power

Dissertant

زيد، شروق إبراهيم محمود

Thesis advisor

أحمد عزم حمد

University

Birzeit University

Faculty

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Department

International Studies

University Country

Palestine (West Bank)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2017

English Abstract

This thesis examines the Palestinian public diplomacy through studying the Palestinian sport experience as a model of soft power.

The study is based on the basic hypothesis: “Sport has become an integral part of the Palestinian public diplomacy that adopts soft power as an instrument to shape the Palestinian nation.” The comparative deductive approach was used, where the theories of public diplomacy, that were developed internationally, have been examined on the Palestinian reality.

Thus, sport was studied as an instrument of that diplomacy.

The study presented the most important ideas and theories in the field of public diplomacy and soft power.

It compared these theories with the Palestinian situation and its applications.

The study documented also Palestinian sport events, where politics and diplomacy have been present both in terms of political significance and in terms of their political impact on sport’s life.

The study consists of four chapters; the first includes a theoretical consolidation of the concept of public diplomacy, soft power and the nation's branding in international relations.

The second chapter was devoted to the study of global experiences in which sports constituted a kind of policy and public diplomacy.

The third chapter dealt with the history of Palestinian sports, which is an integral part of the Palestinian cause, where Palestinian sport has been affected by a wave of political events throughout history, especially the emergence of the Zionist sport activities before the establishment of the State of Israel, by the Zionist movement, in 1948.

The fourth chapter studied the Palestinian sport situation and the events that formed the public diplomacy, the soft power and the branding of the nation, since the National Authority has adopted the program of building the State of the Palestine and its institutions as a means to reach independence in the period between 2007 and 2016.

The study concluded that the Palestinian sports events took a diplomatic approach characterized by the application of public diplomacy tools and the use of soft power to achieve the Palestinian political goals; and to confirm the existence of the Palestinian people, and promote its identity in the international community, both at the level of governments or peoples.

Lastly, it is important to mention that all these efforts were done without a systematic strategy.

Main Subjects

Political Sciences

No. of Pages

140

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Language

Arabic

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-837388