National identity as country’s image component

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Ekaterina A. Toropova

PhD Student, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: katyuester@gmail.com

Section: Advertising and Public Relations

The article reviews different identity and nation definitions. The issues under discussion include national identity concept, its structure and the ways of identification. Special attention is paid to national identity importance for country image communication.

Keywords: country image, identity, nation, national identity