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Confronting 'looting to order' and 'cultural racketeering' in Syria will help...
Franklin Lamb, opednews.comImage from article, with caption: Palmyra early May 2015. Before the arrival of Da'ish (ISIS). As of early October 2015 it is not known precisely what has been...
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The food blockade of Crimea only hurts Ukraine, not Russia
Dmitry Polikanov, russia-direct.org, Sept 30Image from article, with caption: A member of a right sector nationalist group carries tires to block a road heading towards Crimea, in the village of...
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Foreign policy lessons learned for the post-Obama era
Jennifer Rubin, washingtonpost.comimage fromExcerpt:After the George W. Bush and Obama years, it is fair to say those who served in either administration or followed closely and analyzed events made...
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Somalia Gets DC PR Help
Greg Hazley, odwyerpr.com; image from entryVirginia-based Grieboski Global Strategies is advising the Federal Republic of Somalia on the PR and lobbying front.Grieboski, the firm of Joseph Grieboski,...
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Live Dive: Hillary Clinton’s Emails, Round 5
blogs.wsj.comClinton image fromExcerpt:The e-mails show that the State Department – and Hillary Clinton herself – pushed back forcefully against media reports they deemed to be inaccurate.A Jan. 2010...
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Ten Revelations From a Master Class With Claude Lanzmann
Judy Maltz, haaretz.comLanzmann image from articleThe filmmaker did not consider his Holocaust epic 'Shoah' a documentary; calls the exodus of French Jews to Israel 'a posthumous victory for...
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In Syria, Putin is hero, Obama is zero
cyceon.comPutin image fromIn the complex era of online information, what counts is not the truth but the perception the majority of the people has of the truth. Beyond being currently the world’s most...
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September Blog Roundup: The Top 5
uscpublicdiplomacy.orgSep 30, 2015As September comes to a close, check out the top posts of the month at the CPD Blog.5) Panda-plomacy: How Americans are Paying a Fortune for China’s Public Diplomacy...
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The Failure Of Hillary Clinton's “Smart Power” Foreign Policy Led To The...
Adam Topolansky, hungarytoday.huimage from articleExcerpt:Initially proclaimed to be a major success, the smart power foreign policy strategy that she [Clinton] devised and encouraged led to...
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Quotable: Bryan Leese on “everyone a player” in the information element of power
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgTuesday, September 29th 2015In an essay largely focused on what “sentiment analysis” of social media may yield for decision makers, Navy Commander Bryan Leese, writing in the...
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Latvian MFA and U.S. Under Secretary of State Stengel discussed strategic...
BC, baltic-course.comOn 27 September, during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Foreign Minister of Latvia, Edgars Rinkevics, met with the United States Under...
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DCID holds China-U.S. public diplomacy event
dcid.sanford.duke.eduHollywood. Guns. Obesity.These were just a few of the terms that came immediately to the minds of Chinese officials when they thought of the United States. For first-year students...
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Beware the hoax of countering violent extremism
america.aljazeera.comimage fromUN global youth effort is an exercise in delusionSeptember 29, 2015 2:00AM ETby Rami G. Khouri @ramikhouriThe annual United Nations General Assembly meetings in New...
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China isn’t about to abandon North Korea
Kevin Gray, eastasiaforum.org; uncaptioned image from articleExcerpt:Much has been made of the recent cooling of diplomatic relations between China and North Korea and Beijing’s increased emphasis on...
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The Power of False Narrative
consortiumnews.comimage fromExclusive: “Strategic communications” or Stratcom, a propaganda/psy-op technique that treats information as a “soft power” weapon to wield against adversaries, is a new...
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BBG's Lansing to Outline Agency Plans
Meeting With Board Next Weekimage fromJohn Eggerton, multichannel.comNew Broadcasting Board of Governors President/CEO John Lansing will meet those governors Oct. 8 when the board meets at the...
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Report: “Beyond Cold-War Thinking: Young Perspectives on U.S.-Russia Relations”
An article particularly pertaining to public diplomacy in this book of essays:is: "U.S.-Russia Relations in the Context of Cold War 2.0: Attitudes, Approaches, and the Potential of Public Diplomacy" by...
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Coming soon!
American Center Moscow [see also.]We’re excited to announce that the American Center Moscow has a new home at the U.S. Embassy! We have been busy painting walls, putting together furniture and creating...
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Using Celebrity Diplomacy to End Tuberculosis
Tara Ornstein, uscpublicdiplomacy.orgOct 2, 2015uncaptioned image from articleEarlier this year, London’s mayor Boris Johnson appointed Emma Thompson as his Tuberculosis (TB) Ambassador in an effort to...
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Ethiopia: Ad-Hoc Committee Deliberates On Draft Legislation of the National...
allafrica.comimage fromAn Ad-hoc Committee representing more than 70 members of the Public Diplomacy Delegation who had been to Egypt and Sudan deliberated on the Zero-Draft dedicated to establishing a...
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