Written by a leading scholar of public diplomacy, Boundary Spanners
of Humanity introduces a pan-human vision of communication that can
revolutionize how we collaborate to solve global problems. Never
before has humanity enjoyed better technological capabilities for
interconnection than today. Ironically, rather than benefiting from
the global pool of human resources and intellectual wealth to solve
shared problems, nations are experiencing public discord and global
divisions. Boundary Spanners of Humanity tackles the challenge of
how to enhance global collaboration by introducing three pan-human
logics of human communication and public diplomacy that can
transform how we view diversity in an interconnected world. R.S.
Zaharna begins by asking why the very tools needed for global
collaboration-communication and public diplomacy-are undermining
our efforts to work together. Her research reveals how contemporary
communication is based on a nineteenth-century mindset of
separateness that divided people into mutually exclusive cultural
and national categories. That mindset reinforces human divisions
and erodes global collaboration. In a radical break from
conventional models, Zaharna introduces a vision of
humanity-centered public diplomacy featuring three complementary
logics of communication. Zaharna's innovative approach stems from
decade-long, interdisciplinary research that spans from ancient
cosmologies to emerging neurobiology. She draws on a rich array of
global examples from ancient and indigenous precolonial diplomacies
to spontaneous online communication during the Covid-19 pandemic to
provide insights into overlooked aspects of emotion, empathy,
spirituality, and synchrony in how nations and people communicate
in the global arena. Ambitiously conceived, this book will bring a
new, global understanding of how to conduct public diplomacy for
the world's boundary spanners-those who would find commonality
among our many divisions-and collaborate on humanity's shared
global problems.
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