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U.S. 2017 budget requests US$ 39.8 million to support Sri Lanka government's...
colombopage.comBiswal image fromMay 12, Washington, DC: The United States Department of State's FY 2017 budget request of $39.8 million will support Sri Lankan government's reforms to stimulate trade...
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Crimea Realities Chief Says Ban Won’t Stop Website, BBG announced
BBG Watch Commentaryuncaptioned image from articleThe Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted a press release with a headline announcing that the Russian government’s action to block access to...
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Pakistan’s cultural and public diplomacy
Editorial, dailytimes.com.pkimage from articlePakistan's UN mission recently organised a cultural festival of ideas for the first time in the history of foreign office in New York, and it aimed to...
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Java project: A case study of place branding
Gadis Ranty, thejakartapost.comimage fromAfter gaining a big name in the coding world, “Java” has become a generic term for coffee of any type and origin.In April, Washington state finally declared...
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Public diplomacy & Pakistan
Suman Zehra, pakobserver.netimage fromIn the realm of international relations, the public diplomacy or people’s diplomacy, broadly speaking, refers to a well thought-out way of interaction and...
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India's Public Diplomacy and Our Media
Misha Rahman, pakobserver.netimage fromRealist dictum suggests that the struggle for power between states dominate their relations with each other. And for soothing this clash of national interest and...
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Systemic transition requires economic stability
Sadık Ünay, Daily Sabahimage fromExcerpt:Turkey is currently going through a period of imminent systemic transition indicated by the recent resignation of the Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu as a result...
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New foreign policy direction
Louis A. Delvoie, The Kingston Whig-StandardExcerpt:Image from article, with caption: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the United Nations Signing Ceremony Conference for the Paris Agreement climate...
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Ghana undoubtedly needs another “non-partisan” NRC
newsghana.com.ghimage from article, with caption: Ghana FlagExcerpt:The idea that each of the political parties might want to gain some advantage over each other in the upcoming general elections could...
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Bombs and Dollars quoted by Public Diplomacy Council
Michael Blatt, bombsdollars.comEarlier Sumantra noted how Russia has taken to tweeting images of Command and Conquer, a computer game, along with allegations about Ukraine. In more serious discourse,...
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Art and Culture in Asia Pacific
uscpublicdiplomacy.orgMay 13, 2016This week in PD News, headlines showcased the power of cultural diplomacy to win hearts, minds and customers abroad. China is restoring ancient cave temples along the...
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A World Indifferent to Refugees
Neha Wadekar, uscpublicdiplomacy.orguncaptioned image from articleMay 13, 2016Note from the CPD Blog Manager: This piece serves as an introduction to Neha Wadekar's multimedia project on Syrian...
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Filling the void: Israel’s self-styled shadow foreign minister
Lahav Harkov, jpost.comWith no designated foreign minister in sight, Yair Lapid decided to become a diplomat in his fight against the government from the opposition.Lapid image from...
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Why we need full-fledged int'l forum
Moon Tae-young, koreatimes.co.krimage fromExcerpt:[G]lobal discourse venues such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, attended by world opinion leaders, and the BOAO Forum, wholeheartedly supported by...
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Cyber Diplomacy vs. Digital Diplomacy: A Terminological Distinction
Shaun Riordan, uscpublicdiplomacy.org; see also John Brown (1) "Diplomacies, from Public to Pubic," Huffington Post; (2) a follow-up to (1): "Ongoing updating of article, 'Diplomacies, from Public to...
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Blast from the Cold War Past: "Let Poland be Poland"
Mikołaj Gliński, culture.pl, 2015/12/02Frank Sinatra at the Rat Pack concert in Carnegie Hall in 1974; Photo: KEYSTONE Pictures / ForumIn early 1982, with martial law in full swing in Poland, American...
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Amb. Kenton Keith: “Vital importance of person to person engagement”
pdaa.publicdiplomacy.orgimage from article, with caption: State.gov(14 May 2016) Remarks by Amb. Kenton W. Keith on receiving the DACOR [Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired] Foreign Service Cup at...
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Ambassador to El Salvador: Who Is Jean E. Manes?
allgov.comManes image from entryExcerpt:Jean Manes, a career member of the Foreign Service, was confirmed by the Senate on December 9, 2015 as Ambassador to El Salvador. It is her first such...
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RE: Mahama’s Colonial Mindset of Public Officers and the price many nations...
newsghana.comimage fromExcerpt:President Mahama’s casual paraphrasic rendering of “colonial mentality” puts it as “the lackadaisical attitude of some public officials.”Here is also what some web...
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East Africa: Sudanese Scholars Commend Ethiopia's Regional Integration Effort
Mengisteab Teshome, allafrica.comimage fromExcerpt:Sudanese scholars from the visiting Public Diplomacy delegation said that people to people relation is instrumental to mutually benefit from the...
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