Vinogradova E.A. The ALBA member-states’ public diplomacy in the Syrian crisis

Abstract: The ALBA member-states’ public diplomacy in the Middle East is one of the top-priority foreign policy guidelines of the ALBA member-states in their asymmetric informational confrontation with the USA. During the period of 2006 – 2013 the ALBA member-states had been influencing the international Mass Media in order to form a negative reputation of the USA. The strengthening foreign-policy dialogue between the ALBA member-states and Syria, which unites two regions on the base of resistance to the unipolar influence of the USA, opens the perspectives for the formation of new centers of power, which will be opposed to the existing unipolarity. The methodology of the research is based on the system, structural-functional, comparative-historical, and comparative-political approaches, and on the methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, modeling, inclusive observation, and dialectics. In 2004 nine countries of Latin America and the Caribbean – Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – created the international organization and the sub-regional integration association the ALBA – the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra America). Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro initiated its creation.

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