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Daryl Copeland
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daryl.copeland@guerrilladiplomacy.com


Daryl Copeland is an analyst, author, educator and consultant specializing in diplomacy, international policy, global issues and public management. His first book, Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations, was released in 2009 by Lynne Rienner Publishers and is cited as an essential reference by the editors of Oxford Bibliographies Online. Mr. Copeland is a frequent public speaker; he comments regularly for the national media, and has written over 100 articles for the scholarly and popular press. His work has appeared in many anthologies, as well as in the International Journal, World Politics Review, Foreign Policy in Focus, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Embassy, The Mark and elsewhere. He was awarded the 2010 Molot Prize for best article published in Canadian Foreign Policy (“Virtuality, Diplomacy and the Foreign Ministry”, 15:2).

From 1981 to 2009 Mr. Copeland served as a Canadian diplomat with postings in Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Malaysia. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was elected a record five times to the Executive Committee of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers. From 1996-99 he was National Program Director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in Toronto and Editor of Behind the Headlines, Canada’s international affairs magazine. In 2000, he received the Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award for his “tireless dedication and unyielding commitment to advancing the interests of the diplomatic profession.”

Among his positions at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Ottawa, Mr. Copeland has worked as Senior Intelligence Analyst, South and Southeast Asia; Deputy Director for International Communications; Director for Southeast Asia; Senior Advisor, Public Diplomacy; Director of Strategic Communications Services; and, Senior Advisor, Strategic Policy and Planning. He was DFAIT representative to the Association of Professional Executives (APEX) 2001-06.

Mr. Copeland is now Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia’s London Academy of Diplomacy (UK) and a Research Associate at the University of Ottawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies. He serves as a peer reviewer for University of Toronto Press, Canadian Foreign Policy, the International Journal and The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. From 2009-11 he was Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, where he designed and delivered an advanced seminar on Science, Technology, Diplomacy and International Policy. In 2009 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy.

Mr. Copeland grew up in downtown Toronto, and received his formal education at the University of Western Ontario (Gold Medal, Political Science; Chancellor’s Prize, Social Sciences) and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Canada Council Special MA Scholarship). He has spent years backpacking on six continents, and enjoys travel, photography, arts and the outdoors.

Further information on Daryl Copeland and his thinking on diplomacy, development and security in the age of globalization is available at: www.guerrilladiplomacy.com.

Recent Publications by Daryl Copeland
March 16, 2012 - Public Diplomacy, Branding, and the Image of Nations, Part I: What's in a Brand? CPD Blog

February 16, 2012 - Heteropolarity, globalization and the new threat set Embassy

February 2, 2012 - Heteropolis rising: World order in the 21st century Embassy

January 19, 2012 - Heteropolarity, security and diplomacy Embassy

January 12, 2012 - A Future for Public Diplomacy The Mark

January 3, 2012 - Canadian Public Diplomacy, Then and Now The Mark

January 3, 2012 - A New Diplomacy for the EU New Europe

November 2011 - Science Diplomacy: What's It All About? Centre for International Policy Studies

February 2, 2011 - Cairo Burning: Implications for the Defense vs. Diplomacy Debate CPD Blog


Daryl Copeland in the News
December 16, 2009 - Copeland discusses the geopolitics of the upcoming decade. Embassy

December 3, 2009 - Copeland discusses "Guerrilla Diplomacy" on CBC Radio's "The Current." (audio)

October 25, 2009 - A review of "Guerrilla Diplomacy" by Euro-blog Brussels Agenda New Europe

October 8, 2009 - Copeland discusses "Guerrilla Diplomacy" as part of CPD event series 'Conversations in Public Diplomacy.' (audio)

September 1, 2009 - Library Journal publishes a capsule review of Daryl Copeland's 'Guerrilla Diplomacy."

August 12, 2009 - "Guerrilla Diplomacy," by Copeland, reviewed by Embassy Magazine.


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