Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez is tenured Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, where he teaches Journalism and International Studies. He is member of the Centre of Excellence Jean Monnet at the European Studies Center. The last project is “What role for Europe in the Indo-Pacific? Identifying regional policy responses towards the EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategy 2022-25” (Grant 101085570).
He is Associated Professor at the Spanish Diplomatic School. He is charge of “Diplomacy” courses in the official master’s degree. He is guest professor in other diplomatic schools.
He was named Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Foreign Service (Georgetown University, 2021-2024). He taught “Diplomacy for the world to come”, “Urban International Politics”, “Deglobalization & Public Diplomacy” and “Public Diplomacy”. He was -and still is- member of the Latin American Leadership Program fellow. Currently, he serves as Geopolitics & Diplomacy Vicepresident of Georgetown Club of Spain.
Also, he serves as International Studies Association - ICOMM Section Chair (International Communication) and executive committee member. Her challenge is to manage the diversity of generations, geographies, and genders in global research practice (6,500 associates from 180 countries). Over the past year, he has led the conversation about the impact of turbulence (Trumpism, wars, great competition) on international communication research.
His field of research includes deglobalization, European politics, public diplomacy, urban international politics, and geopolitics/geoeconomics. His most recent books are How Disinformation Ruins Public Diplomacy: Unfair Competition(Routledge, 2025), Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation (Palgrave, 2023), and Urban Diplomacy. A Cosmopolitan Outlook (Brill, 2021),long-listed in the Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award – Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Selected publications
- JL Manfredi Sánchez (2026). Deglobalization. A political theory of the present. Georgetown University Press (forthcoming).
- JL Manfredi Sánchez (2025). How Disinformation Ruins Public Diplomacy: Unfair Competition. Routledge.
- JL Manfredi Sánchez and Pablo Morales (2024). “Generative AI and the future for China’s diplomacy”. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 1-5.
- JL Manfredi Sánchez (2023). “Vaccine (public) Diplomacy: Legitimacy Narratives in the Pandemic Age”, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 19 (3) 398-410.
- JL Manfredi Sánchez and Z.A. Huang (2023). “Disinformation and Diplomacy”, The Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation, 375-396.
- JL Manfredi (co-editor, 2023). Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation. Palgrave.
- JL Manfredi Sánchez and Nick R. Smith (2023) “Public Diplomacy in an age of perpetual crisis: assessing the EU’s strategic narratives through six crises”, Journal of Communication Management, 27 (2), 241-258.
- JL Manfredi Sánchez (2022). “Thinking About Latin American Public Diplomacy”, Latin American Policy, 13 (1), 6-19.
- Olga Kolotouchkina, Carmen Llorente and JL Manfredi Sánchez (2022). “Smart cities, the digital divide, and people with disabilities”, Cities, 123, 103613.
- JL Manfredi Sánchez (2021). “Deglobalization and public diplomacy”, International Journal of Communication, 15, 22.
- JL Manfredi Sánchez and Paul Hare (2021). “COVID, Deglobalization, and the Decline of Diplomacy: Could Tele-Diplomacy Revitalize Diplomacy’s Capacity to Promote Consensus?”, Global Policy, 12 (4), 574-576,
- JL Manfredi Sánchez, Adriana Amado y Silvio Waisbord (2021). “Presidential Twitter and COVID-19: populism and pop politics”, Revista Comunicar, 66, 83-94.
JL Manfredi Sánchez (2020). “Diplomacy for the world to come”. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 15-4, 517-519.
Link to detailed CV
Spanish of Science & Research (repository)
https://cvn.fecyt.es/0000-0001-9129-2907
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlmanfredi/