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Clapper calls for U.S. Information Agency ‘on steroids’ to counter Russian...
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing: “Foreign Cyber Threats to the United...
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James Clapper Says That America Needs a New Propaganda Agency to Fight Russia
Matt Novak, gizmodo.com; see below for additional links.Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee today about Russian involvement in the 2016...
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Sowing the Seeds of Diplomacy on Hard American Ground
booksandjournals.brillonline.com; via DO on FacebookHome > Journals > The Hague Journal of Diplomacy > Sowing the Seeds of Diplomacy on Hard American GroundAdvanced Search All Content E-Books...
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Art and Law: Obama Signs Law That Could Reopen Cultural Exchange with Russia
news.artnet.com; via USC PDRussia's major museums have not lent artworks to the US since 2011.Alyssa Buffenstein, January 5, 2017The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Courtesy of Wikimedia...
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My three maddening, futile years inside the broken Senate confirmation process
Washington PostQualified candidates like me are pawns in a political game, and important posts go unfilled.By Doug Wilson January 6 at 6:00 AM Doug Wilson, a former assistant secretary of defense for...
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How We Can Kill Terrorism With Kindness
Jacob N. Shapiro, TimeImage from article, with caption: Displaced people fleeing from Boko Haram incursions into Niger carry boxes of oil during a World Food Programme (WFP) and USAID food distribution...
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Trump insiders head for big K Street paydays
Former aides look to disrupt a lobbying industry where Trump connections are rare.By ISAAC ARNSDORF and KENNETH P. VOGEL 01/06/17 07:01 PM EST, politico.com [original article contains links.]Jolly...
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"USIA [USG Cold War Public Diplomacy agency] on Steroids" - a footnote
Main point of this entry: "being on steroids" doesn't mean "communicating."Allow me to post a minor comment of mine (slightly edited here) on the draft of a brilliant article (which he kindly shared...
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United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
state.govNew ACPD Executive Director Powers image fromSince 1948, the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (ACPD) has been charged with appraising U.S. Government activities intended...
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What's Inside the Latest PDC Book?
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgImage from, with caption: New survey of U.S. public diplomacy released on eve of Presidential Inauguration: Dan Whitman (center) moderates the launch of the Council's book...
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Russia’s strategy for influence through public diplomacy and active measures:...
image (not from entry) fromJoel Harding, toinformistoinfluence.comPages 1-44 | Published online: 05 Jan 2017AbstractRussia, as many contemporary states, takes public diplomacy seriously. Since the...
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The Washington Post's double standard on confirmation of presidential appointees
Michael Barone, washingtonexaminer.com; see also.image (not from article) fromExcerpt:So let's eliminate the paperwork requirements for nominees to the U.S. Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy—...
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New Legislation Establishes Orwellian Propaganda Agency
J. Jacob Dalen, valuewalk.comimage (not from article) fromOur elected officials in Washington have a habit of passing the laws that the American people would probably most like to know about at times...
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American soft power and public diplomacy in the Arab world
William Rugh, Palgrave Communications 3, Article number: 16104 (2017), Published online 10 January 2017image from AbstractAbstract • Introduction • Public diplomacy and soft power in the Arab world •...
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Trump cannot shield America from the forces of globalization
Washington PostBy Afshin Molavi January 10 at 7:21 PM [original article contains links.]A worker uses a lift to move rolls of sheet metal at LMS International, in Laredo, Tex., on Nov. 21, 2016. (Eric...
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Taiwan's public diplomacy
koreatimes.co.krBy Lee Seong-hyonSouth Korea is a latecomer when it comes to public diplomacy. It can learn from Taiwan's experience, especially its public diplomacy with the United States. It's a...
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Public Diplomacy and National Security
Lessons Learned for the Next Administration: A CSIS-CPD Eventuncaptioned image from entryPlease join the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Human Rights Initiative (HRI) and CPD...
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Public Diplomacy-related articles (1/11/2017 - 12/30/2016) posted for the record
image fromLinks to articles judged most important by your compiler re PD, as pertains primarily to U.S. PD (in mostly reverse chronological order, 1/11/2017-12/30/2016). (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)...
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People Are Cringing Over Trump’s Adviser Saying The Inauguration Will Have...
Julia Reinstein, buzzfeed.com[JB note - Forget "soft power" (a form of "public diplomacy, or maybe vice versa). So, How about an Under Secretary of State for Soft Sensuality? (USSS?) :)Inauguration...
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An urgent State Department makeover
America needs a retooled organization that gets resultsRobert Charles, washingtontimes.comimage from articleANALYSIS/OPINION:Excerpt:Donald Trump and prospective Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have...
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