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The paper provides an overview of the contribution of Croatian researchers, primarily scientists and associates from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb, to research and teaching of political communication, political marketing and public relations in Croatia. All three disciplines belong to the field of strategic communication, which refers to a purposeful use of communication by individuals, organizations, institutions or states aimed at achieving their strategic goals. The paper shows how Croatia, despite its belated enrolment in the market communication, quickly caught up with international research and academic trends in the field. The role of the Faculty in this process was the one of a pioneer and a leader. Researchers from the Faculty, as well as other Croatian scientists, have been contributing to the conceptualization and comparative analyses of contemporary election campaigns, as well as to the research of the phenomena of Americanization, personalization, packaging of politics, populism, celebrity populism, disinformation, e-democracy, cyber politics and others. In the field of public relations, particularly noteworthy are contributions related to image, identity and nation branding, crisis communication, strategic communication in tourism and evaluation in public relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]