Strategic Communications and

National Strategy

A Chatham House Report

Paul Cornish, Julian Lindley-French and Claire Yorke

This report aims to raise awareness of the role and potential of strategic communications as a means of delivering policy. It argues that strategic communications should become a more prominent component at the highest levels of government, at an early stage in the development of a complex stabilization or other operation, during a crisis response or a contingency operation and generally as an organic part of policy-making. September 2011

ISBN: 978-1-86203-255-2 £10

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