Jason Shepherd
Jason Shepherd is an Assistant Professor (adjunct) at Kennesaw State University in the School of Government and International Affairs. His courses have included American Political Parties, Careers in Politics, and Introduction to Government.
Mr. Shepherd earned his AB in Political Science from the University of Georgia, his P.G. Diploma in Global Business from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, and his JD from Atlanta's John Marshall Law School.
He serves on numerous boards and councils including the Political Science Advisory Board at Kennesaw State University, the Board of Directors for the Center for Family Resource, the Board of Directors for Select Cobb, and as a member of both the Government Affairs Committee and the International Council for the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce. He is also the Atlanta Regional Ambassador for the Saïd Business School and a member of the Georgia Council for International Visitors.
His commentary and political analysis on national and international political trends have appeared in Politico.com, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and FoxNews.com, among others. He has also appeared on-air on NBC's "Meet the Press" and has frequently been interviewed by NPR. He is admitted to practice law before the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court, and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Shepherd earned his AB in Political Science from the University of Georgia, his P.G. Diploma in Global Business from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, and his JD from Atlanta's John Marshall Law School.
He serves on numerous boards and councils including the Political Science Advisory Board at Kennesaw State University, the Board of Directors for the Center for Family Resource, the Board of Directors for Select Cobb, and as a member of both the Government Affairs Committee and the International Council for the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce. He is also the Atlanta Regional Ambassador for the Saïd Business School and a member of the Georgia Council for International Visitors.
His commentary and political analysis on national and international political trends have appeared in Politico.com, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and FoxNews.com, among others. He has also appeared on-air on NBC's "Meet the Press" and has frequently been interviewed by NPR. He is admitted to practice law before the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court, and the United States Supreme Court.
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This paper will seek to provide greater understanding of the transaction costs, added value, and future implications of this trend of “Privatized Diplomacy” (PD), the term that will be used to describe this strategy, which is experiencing dynamic growth in its use in an increasingly globalized world. This paper will also examine how PD relates to firms’ needs for more general corporate diplomacy (CD) strategy, as well as discuss how the use of these private domestic diplomats has the potential to neutralize the liability of foreignness (LOF) and affect outcomes predicted by the obsolescing bargain model (OBM) as firms seeking entry into new, but established, markets are represented by more familiar, and local faces. This paper will also rely on personal experience as a registered lobbyist as well as my own association with the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) who has been a first-hand observer of the tactic of building local domestic constituencies to influence domestic governments for foreign trade and investment opportunities.
This paper will seek to provide greater understanding of the transaction costs, added value, and future implications of this trend of “Privatized Diplomacy” (PD), the term that will be used to describe this strategy, which is experiencing dynamic growth in its use in an increasingly globalized world. This paper will also examine how PD relates to firms’ needs for more general corporate diplomacy (CD) strategy, as well as discuss how the use of these private domestic diplomats has the potential to neutralize the liability of foreignness (LOF) and affect outcomes predicted by the obsolescing bargain model (OBM) as firms seeking entry into new, but established, markets are represented by more familiar, and local faces. This paper will also rely on personal experience as a registered lobbyist as well as my own association with the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) who has been a first-hand observer of the tactic of building local domestic constituencies to influence domestic governments for foreign trade and investment opportunities.