Crafting a NATO Brand: Bolstering Internal Support for the Alliance through Image Management

Abstract:

NATO confronts four distinct public perception challenges: weak or varying public support for the alliance and its specific missions; a general lack of public awareness of the alliance's post-cold war transformation; diverging opinions on its proper role in the world; and parochial and domestic interests filtering into NATO's agenda. These various public relations challenges detract from alliance cohesiveness, impede mission performance, breed confusion and dissension about alliance aims, and raise questions about the proper operation of democratic governance within the alliance. Recent alliance communication efforts encompassing public diplomacy and strategic communications have failed to improve these public perception challenges. Instead, NATO should consider adopting a long-term branding strategy that focuses specifically on shaping the public's mental image of the alliance through the creation, promulgation, and management of a core message. Such a strategy has the potential to create a more consolidated alliance mandate that is easier for the public to understand and, ultimately, transforms the way NATO relates to its public.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank Francesco Giumelli, Sean Kay, Olivier Schmitt and Philip Seib for their thoughtful comments on earlier versions of this article presented at the British International Studies Association and the International Studies Association Joint International Conference, Edinburgh, 20–22 June 2012, and the International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 3–6 April 2013.

Notes

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31. Quote cited in John Robert Kelley, ‘Between “Take-offs” and “Crash Landings”’ (note 29), p.77.

32. Depending upon one's definition, strategic communications can be synonymous with public diplomacy – R.S. Zaharna, ‘Battles to Bridges: U.S. Strategic Communications and Public Diplomacy after 9/11′ (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p.6 – or can encompass more activities than public diplomacy such as psychological operations – Anaïs Reding, Kristin Weed, and Jeremy J. Ghez, NATO's Strategic Communications Concept and its Relevance for France (Cambridge: RAND Corporation, 2010), p.7.

33. Detailed explanations of the concept of branding applied to a state can be found in Melissa Aronczyk, Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013); Simon Anholt, Competitive Identity: The New Brand Management for Nations, Cities, and Regions (New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2007); and Peter van Ham, ‘Place Branding: The State of the Art’, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 616 (March 2008), pp.126–49.

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36. For more on alliance cohesion and maintenance see Charles W. Kegley and Gregory R. Raymond, When Trust Breaks Down: Alliance Norms and World Politics (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1990); or Glenn H. Snyder, Alliance Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997).

37. For examples see Philip Everts and Pierangelo Isernia (eds), Public Opinion and the International Use of Force (London: Routledge, 2001); Matthew A. Baum and Tim J. Groeling, War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).

38. Tatiana Kostadinova, ‘East European Public Support for NATO Membership: Fears and Aspirations’, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 37, No. 2 (March 2000), p.236.

39. For example, throughout the 1960s and 1970s the French public consistently expressed low favourable views of NATO.

40. Marshall M. Bouton et al., ‘Global Views 2010: American Public Opinion and Foreign Policy’, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, No. 31022, 12 June 2011, pp.84–5. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs also has a robust set of US public opinion surveys, which document a sustained support for NATO among the American populace.

41. Economist/YouGov, ‘Online Survey’, 21 June 2011, question 13, p.5.

42. For more insights on the Turkish-American defence relationship see Jim Zanotti, ‘Turkey–U.S. Defense Cooperation: Prospects and Challenges’, Congressional Research Services, R41761, 8 April 2011, pp.1–45.

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45. German Marshall Fund, Transatlantic Trends 2011: Key Findings, p.11.

46. Reported in Scott Clement, ‘Majority of Americans Say Afghan War Has Not Been Worth Fighting, Post-ABC News Poll Finds’, Washington Post, 19 December 2013, www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/majority-of-americans-say-afghan-war-has-not-been-worth-fighting-post-abc-news-poll-finds/2013/12/19/3484edb2-6836-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html.

47. German Marshall Fund, Transatlantic Trends 2011: Key Findings, p.29.

48. Lydia Saad, ‘Americans Resist a Major U.S. Role in Libya’, 29 March 2011, www.gallup.com/poll/146840/Americans-Resist-Major-Role-Libya.aspx. Results from USA Today/Gallup telephone poll of 1,027 adults conducted 25–27 March 2011.

49. For a discussion of the toolbox argument see Michael Rühle, ‘NATO after Prague: Learning the Lessons of 9/11′, Parameters, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 2003), p.96.

50. Stefanie Babst, ‘Through the Voices, Our Message is Still Heard’, NATO Review: Lisbon Summit Edition (2010), www.nato.int/docu/review/2010/Lisbon-Summit/Message-New-Nato/EN/index.htm.

51. Stefanie Babst, ‘Reinventing NATO's Public Diplomacy’, Research Paper No. 41, NATO Research College – Rome, November 2008, p.3.

52. PIPA Poll cited in Steven Kull, ‘The American Public, Congress and NATO Enlargement’, NATO Review, Vol. 45, No.1 (January 1997), pp.9–11.

53. 52 per cent answered ‘not clear’. Economist/YouGov, ‘Libya: Nearly Five Months of NATO Engagement, But U.S. Opinion is Little Changes’, 10 August 2011, http://today.yougov.com/news/2011/08/10/libya-nearly-five-months-nato-engagement-us-opinio/.

54. Examples of research into informational ignorance or the knowledge gap between elites and the public are: Matthijs Elenbaas, Claes H. de Vreese et al., ‘The Impact of Information Acquisition on EU Performance Judgements’, European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 51, No. 6, 2012, pp.728–55; Stephen E. Bennett, Richard S. Flickinger and Staci L. Rhine, ‘American Public Opinion and Civil War in Bosnia: Attention, Knowledge, and the Media’, The International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 2, No. 4 (September 1997), pp.87–105; and Ilya Somin, ‘Knowledge about Ignorance: New Directions in the Study of Political Information’, Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society, Vol. 18, Nos. 1-3 (2006), pp.255–78.

55. European Commission, ‘Standard Eurobarometer’, No. 66 (September 2007), pp.179–82.

56. European Commission, ‘Standard Eurobarometer’, No. 79 (Spring 2013), p.119.

57. Leonard Ray and Gregory Johnston, ‘European Anti-Americanism and Choices for a European Defense Policy’, PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 40, No. 1 (January 2007), pp.85–91.

58. German Marshall Fund, Transatlantic Trends 2012: Key Findings, p.42.

59. German Marshall Fund, Transatlantic Trends 2013: Topline Data, p.36.

60. For a discussion of national caveats on ISAF, see David P. Auerswald and Stephen S. Saideman, ‘Comparing Caveats: Understanding the Sources of National Restrictions upon NATO's Mission in Afghanistan’, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 1 (March 2012), pp.67–84.

61. German Marshall Fund, Transatlantic Trends 2011: Key Findings, p.13.

62. Jorge Benitez and Margaret Slattery, ‘The FP Survey: The Future of NATO’ Foreign Policy Magazine, 14 May 2012, questions 2 and 3.

63. Jack Ewing, ‘Officials in Germany Support Closing Seven Nuclear Plants’, New York Times, 27 May 2011, www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/business/global/28nuclear.html.

64. 2007 Angus Reid poll cited in Claudine Lamond and Paul Ingram, ‘Politics around US Tactical Nuclear Weapons in European Host Nations’ BASIC Getting to Zero Papers, No. 11, 23 January 2009.

65. Poll conducted in February 2008, 800 respondents. Angus Reid Public Opinion, ‘Greeks Would Block Macedonia's NATO Entry’, 28 February 2008, hwww.angus-reid.com/polls/30835/greeks_would_block_macedonias_nato_entry/.

66. For an examination of domestic politics and the burden-sharing problem see Gregory Flynn (ed.), The Internal Fabric of Western Security (London: Croom Helm, 1981).

67. The Arizona Republic/ The Phoenix Gazette, 7 May 2009, online survey in Canada.

68. Italics author's for emphasis. Harvey Moss, ‘Afghanistan: When Even the Danes Turn on the War … ’, New York Times, 13 March 2012.

69. A number of scholars have investigated various problems arising from NATO's multiplication of roles. See Richard Betts, ‘The Three Faces of NATO’, The National Interest, No. 100 (March/April 2009), pp.31–8; Andrew T. Wolff, ‘The Structural and Political Crisis of NATO Transformation’, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (December 2009), pp.476–92; and Damon Coletta and Sten Rynning, ‘NATO from Kabul to Earth Orbits: Can the Alliance Cope?’, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1 (March 2012), pp.26–44. For more on the problems NATO encounters by shifting to a more functional mission-set, see Trine Flockhart, ‘After the Strategic Concept: Towards a NATO Version 3.0’, Danish Institute for International Studies Report 2011:06, 2011.

70. Lord Robertson, ‘Transforming NATO’, NATO Review (Spring 2003), p.4.

71. The institutional reorganization of NATO's public diplomacy began in 2004 when it transformed its Office of Information and Press into the Public Diplomacy Division and its Committee on Information and Cultural Relations into the Committee on Public Diplomacy. This was done in order to revitalize the alliance's public outreach programmes. A push for a stronger electronic public relations presence began in 2008.

72. Stephen Castle, ‘NATO Hires a Coke Executive to Retool its Brand’, New York Times, 16 July 2008.

73. North Atlantic Council, ‘2010-2011 NATO Public Diplomacy Strategy’, Document C-M(2009)0150, 7 December 2009.

74. See Michèle Schoenberger-Orgad, ‘NATO's Strategic Communication as International Public Relations: The PR Practitioner and the Challenge of Culture in the Case of Kosovo’, Public Relations Review, Vol. 37, No. 4 (November 2011), pp.380–1.

75. G. R. Dimitriu, ‘Winning the Story War: Strategic Communication and the Conflict in Afghanistan’, Public Relations Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, (June 2012), pp.200–3. For a detailed overview of the evolution and structure of strategic communications within NATO see Reding, Weed, and Ghez, NATO's Strategic Communications Concept and its Relevance for France (note 32), pp.1-41.

76. Carlos Branco, ‘NATO in Afghanistan and the Communications Domain’, in Luis Nuno Rodrigues and Volodymyr Dubovyk (eds), Perception of NATO and the New Strategic Concept (Fairfax, VA: IOS Press, 2011), p.104.

77. The Asia Foundation, ‘Executive Summary of Afghanistan in 2013: A Survey of the Afghan People’, The Asia Foundation, 5 December 2013, p.6.

78. Jason Lyall, Graeme Blair, and Kosuke Imai, ‘Explaining Support for Combatants during Wartime: A Survey Experiment in Afghanistan’, American Political Science Review, Vol. 107, No. 04 (November 2013), pp.679–705.

79. James Snyder, The United States and the Challenge of Public Diplomacy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), p.94.

80. Benedetta Berti, Gonca Noyan, Hristiana Grozdanova and Jelena Petrovic, ‘Open and Interactive? A Critical Look at We-NATO’, Atlantic-Community.org, 4 April 2012.

81. Stephanie Babst, ‘Video Interview with Stephanie Babst, Head of NATO Countries Relations, Public Diplomacy Division’, 30 October 2003, www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/opinions_20551.htm?selectedLocale=en.

82. Stephanie Babst, ‘Explaining NATO's Public Diplomacy: Video Interview with Stephanie Babst, Head of NATO Countries Relations, Public Diplomacy Division’, 18 September 2006, www.nato.int/docu/speech/2006/s060918a.htm.

83. For a discussion of the difference between public diplomacy and international branding see Jan Melissen, ‘The New Public Diplomacy: Between Theory and Practice’, in Jan Melissen (ed.), The New Public Diplomacy: Soft Power in International Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp.19–21.

84. Peter van Ham, ‘The Rise of the Brand State’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 5 (September/ October 2001), p.4.

85. Aronczyk, Branding the Nation (note 33), pp.30–2.

86. Some scholars speculate that nation branding is a 21st century version of nationalism. For an in-depth discussion of the connection of branding and national identity see Christopher S. Browning, ‘Nation Branding, National Self-Esteem, and the Constitution of Subjectivity in Late Modernity’, Foreign Policy Analysis (2013), doi: 10.1111/fpa.12028.

87. Cristina Archetti, Understanding Terrorism in the Age of Global Media: A Communication Approach (New York: Palgrave Macmillian), pp.148–9.

88. Simon Anholt, Brand New Justice: The Upside of Global Branding (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003), p.121.

89. This article takes the stance that public diplomacy and branding have some theoretical and practical overlap – they are not wholly distinct from one another. For a detailed discussion of the differences and similarities of public diplomacy and branding see Gyorgy Szondi, ‘Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding: Conceptual Similarities and Differences’, Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’, October 2008, pp.1–42. Also see Christopher S. Browning, ‘Nation Branding’ (note 86), pp.7–8.

90. All of these identity themes are posited in NATO's 2010-11 Communication Strategy. See North Atlantic Council, ‘2010-2011 NATO Public Diplomacy Strategy’, Document C-M(2009)0150, 7 December 2009, paragraph 3.9.

91. ‘Active Engagement, Modern Defence’ is the title of the 2010 Lisbon Strategic Concept meant as a guide for NATO policy for the next decade.

92. For more details on State Farm's brand development, see C. Helmus, C. Paul, and R.W. Glenn, Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation, (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2007), pp.67–8.

93. Anholt, Competitive Identity (note 33), pp.14–5, 30–4.

94. Ibid., p.33.

95. Ibid., p.67.

96. See Sue Curry Jansen, ‘Designer Nations: Neo-liberal Nation Branding – Brand Estonia’, Social Identities, Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 2008), pp.121–42; Somogy Varga, ‘The Politics of Nation Branding: Collective Identity and Public Sphere in the Neoliberal State’, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 39, No. 8 (October 2013), pp.825–45.

97. Simon Anholt asserts that not managing your public image means that someone else is managing your public perception. Anholt, Competitive Identity (note 33), p.41.

98. ‘James Appathurai on the NATO Mission’, Atlantic-Community.org, 16 March 2012, http://archive.atlantic-community.org/index/view/James_Appathurai_on_the_NATO_Mission.

99. Mark A. van Dyke, Toward a Theory of Just Communication: A Case Study of NATO, Multinational Public Relations, and Ethical Management of International Conflict, PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, July 2005, pp.353–65.

100. Simon Anholt, Places: Identity, Image, and Reputation (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p.60.

101. Philip Ewing, ‘Sailor Focus Groups Helped Develop New Slogan’, NavyTimes, 21 November 2009, www.navytimes.com/article/20091121/NEWS/911210306/Sailor-focus-groups-helped-develop-new-slogan.

102. Tony Lombarto, ‘Navy Seeks New Slogan from ‘Global Force’ Creators’, NavyTimes, 6 November 2013, www.navytimes.com/article/20131106/NEWS/311060001/Navy-seeks-new-slogan-from-global-force-creators.

103. Melissa Aronczyk, ‘“Living the Brand”: Nationality, Globality and the Identity Strategies of Nation Branding Consultants’, International Journal of Communication, No. 2 (2008), pp.48, 57.

104. See North Atlantic Treaty Organization, ‘Active Engagement, Modern Defence: Strategic Concept for the Defense and Security of the Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’, Lisbon, Portugal, 19 November 2010, www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_68580.htm.