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Quotable: Jessikka Aro on Russian propaganda and trolling
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgimage (not from entry) fromMonday, May 23rd 2016Writing in European Review, the policy journal of the Centre for European Studies, Jessikka Aro of the Wilfried Martens Centre...
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Quotable: David Ucko on Totalitarian “Hearts and Minds” Campaigns
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgUcko (right) image (not from article) fromMonday, May 23rd 2016Totalitarian states have often launched “hearts and minds” campaigns against restive or occupied populations....
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Q&A with Ambassador Arnold Chacon [sic], Direct [sic] General of U.S. Foreign...
Fangzhou Liu, stanforddaily.com; see also.Chacón image fromAs part of a drive to increase diversity among foreign service officers, Ambassador Arnold Chacon [Chacón], Director General of the United...
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The "Louder Than TB" Campaign
Tara Ornstein, uscpublicdiplomacy.orgimage from entryMay 23, 2016In 2015, tuberculosis (TB) became the world’s most deadly infectious disease. Although emerging diseases such as Ebola or the Zika virus...
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SlinCraze Inspires Sámi Youth with Rap Music
uscpublicdiplomacy.orgSlinCraze image fromMay 19, 2016Can rap music help make an endangered language relevant to 21st century youth? Norwegian rapper Nils Rune Utsi, known by his stage name SlinCraze,...
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US Public Towards Iran Diplomacy
ibc-english.com [below sic]Maryyam MalikBlogger IBC EnglishPublic diplomacy may be defined as engagement with a foreign public and listen to a foreign public and change your approach as a result, in...
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Israeli officials, diplomats free to speak Netanyahu's mind
Akiva Eldar, al-monitor.comImage from article, with caption: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) sits next to Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman after delivering a statement in Jerusalem,...
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Watchdog: Power Struggles Between Ministries Hindered Israel's Battle Against...
Barak David, Haaretz; see also (a) (b) (c) (d)Image from article, with caption: An Egyptian boycott activist holds a BDS pin (illustrative)Two highly critical state comptroller reports detail how the...
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Who is Rep. Mac Thornberry who wants to de-federalize Voice of America?
BBGWatcher May 23, 2016 1 CommentCongress, Featured News, Hot Tub BlogBBG Watch CommentaryRep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), who recently has introduced an amendment to FY2017 National Defense Authorization...
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Congress considers measure to abolish Broadcasting Board of Governors and...
publicdiplomacycouncil.org; see also.image fromFriday, May 20th 2016BBG would be abolished, its CEO would become a Presidential appointee and all U.S. international broadcasting would be consolidated...
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International partnership matches UO [University of Oregon], Pakistani faculty
AroundtheOuncaptioned image from articleUO professor Richard Margerum has spent years analyzing collaborative planning and management involving environmental and land-use issues, expertise he’s now...
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Aloha's cultural dipomacy
https://www.facebook.com/levantinePD/Aloha Colombia!! Time to hula at windmills.Follow along at Levantine Public Diplomacy for updates from the Ambassadors of Aloha's cultural diplomacy adventures in...
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Quotable: Philip Seib on “collaborative public diplomacy"
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgTuesday, May 24th 2016“Although the North Korea conundrum may, unfortunately, require hard power, relying on soft power is the most logical approach to dealing with China and...
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Battle of the Bots
Mark Dillen, uscpublicdiplomacy.org; see also.uncaptioned image from articleMay 24, 2016An extraordinary conference on one of the most important and troubling phenomena of international communication...
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SOUTH CHINA SEA | Beijing lines up diplomatic allies vs PH's arbitration case
Ben Dooley, Agence France-Presse, InterAksyonimage from articleExcerpt:The disputed rocks and reefs of the South China Sea are more than an ocean away from the landlocked African nation of Niger.But...
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From unworkable reconciliation to deadly war
Nasim Zehra, thenews.com.pkImage from, with caption: An Afghan man reads a local newspaper with photos of the leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mansour, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in...
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Closed meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBGWatcher May 23, 2016 0 CommentsCongress, Featured News, Hot Tub BlogBBG, Ed Royce, Global Engagement Center, H.R. 2323,Jeff Shell, John F. Lansing, John Lansing, leon aron, Mac Thornberry, Matt...
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US Disappointed by Chinese Scrapping of Online Q&A Session
voanews.comFILE - A man surfs Internet on his laptop computer at a Starbucks cafe in Beijing, Feb. 16, 2015.RELATED ARTICLESChinese Government-backed Social Media Users Flood WebNielsen's, Sina Weibo...
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[Public Diplomacy and Military Music]
Excerpt from a comment by Rick Barnes (his image from Facebook) above on Facebook, which he kindly authorized me to cite below (comment was written in reaction to the article, Ellen Mitchell, "The...
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New Book Reveals Edward R. Murrow's Years As a Government Propagandist
Matt Novak, paleofuture.gizmodo.com; see (1) (2: "The Man who invented truth" by scholar Nicholas Cull)Newscaster Edward R. Murrow on a CBS TV set circa 1950s (Associated Press)“I don’t mind being...
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