Amit Turgeman is an M.A. student at the Smart Scholarship Program for advanced studies in communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In her current thesis project, Amit investigates the performance, functions, and aspects of success and failure of expressions of gratitude in diplomacy as both international & personal practice.Subjects of interest: State’s strategies, norms, and codes of behavior in the world system, personal communication strategies in diplomacy, and behaviors' effects on world public opinion.