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Quotable: Marian Leighton recalls Soviet disinformation campaigns
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgFriday, November 13th 2015Marian Leighton, a former intelligence officer who specialized in Soviet affairs, recalled the “Soviet disinformation campaign during the 1980s that...
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Chinese media crucial in public diplomacy effort
Jeff Kingston, japantimes.co.jpImage from article, with caption: Down one for diplomacy: Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) drinks a beer with British Prime Minister David Cameron at a pub in England...
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Quotable: J. M. Berger on ISIS and the war of ideas
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgFriday, November 13th 2015brookings.edu“The Islamic State isn’t succeeding because of the strength of its narrative. It’s succeeding because it can mobilize a microscopic...
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Beyond Physical Threats
Alan Kadish, huffingtonpost.comOren image from entryExcerpt:Michael Oren, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. ... is currently a member of Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, where he serves on the...
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Quotable: Theresa Ford on religious engagement
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgimage (only indirectly related to the below) from“In September 2014, the U.S. secretary of state announced a new maxim for foreign policy: ‘religion matters,’” noted an Army...
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"Nobody's Perfect"
image fromAs I read article after article on how to "evaluate" public diplomacy, supposedly to be evaluated quantitatively (but an activity, in actuality -- for anyone who's had the privilege to carry...
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Remarks by NASA Administrator Bolden to the Council on Foreign Relations 12...
spaceref.comimage fromExcerpt:To me, public diplomacy and cooperation in space go together like peanut butter and jelly. They just belong together.As Administrator of NASA I often meet with the heads...
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Quotable: Thomas Joscelyn on rival messaging by al Qaeda and ISIS
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgSaturday, November 14th 2015defenddemocracy.orgThomas Joscelyn, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reviewed recent media appearances by Ayman al...
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Back: Exporting higher learning where education is a matter of life and death
Don Back, roanoke.comDon Back, director of the Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute, has been active in international education for nearly 30 years.Image from article, with caption:...
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Freed Briton ‘ashamed,’ thanks KSA
arabnews.comAndree image from articleLONDON: An elderly Briton who went home on Thursday after Saudi Arabia released him says he is “ashamed and embarrassed” about the actions that led to his arrest,...
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Public Affairs Specialist [job opening]
globaljobs.orgVISTA Technology Services, Inc.LocationWashington, D.C.SectorCommercialExperienceMid CareerPostedNov 11Position DescriptionVISTA Technology Services, Inc. (VISTA) is currently seeking a...
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Enjoy Rocking with a former KGB General (at the premiere of the film, How...
FILM PREMIERE of FREE TO ROCK7:30 pm, Tuesday, November 17thGASTON HALL at Georgetown University How Rock and Roll Helped End the Cold WarNarrated by Kiefer Sutherland Directed by 4 Time...
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Upcoming Training in Soft Diplomacy Skills
via emailSoft diplomacy resides in the ability to understand others to obtainspecific outcomes employing tactful techniques to gain strategicadvantage or to find common solutions to a challenge.This...
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The Modi delusion is still very much intact
Ravi Menon, gulfnews.comNo one can take away the Indian prime minister’s persistent efforts to bring capital into Indiauncaptioned image from articleExcerpt:The print media in the United Kingdom...
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Baku to mark 90th anniversary of Russian public diplomacy
abc.azBaku, Fineko/abc.az. The Russian Information and Cultural Center (RICC) is planning a demonstrational event in Baku.RICC reports that on 19 November it will hold a roundtable on the theme...
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U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy: Notice of Meeting
s3.amazonaws.com; see also.image fromDEPARTMENT OF STATE[Public Notice: 9346]U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy: Notice of MeetingThe U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy will hold a...
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Students, Madison Avenue Enlisted in Messaging Fight Against ISIS
Kate Kaye, adage.comCombating Extremism With Social Media and Other Marketing Tacticsimage fromSixteen West Point cadets in their dress grays sat in a BuzzFeed conference room in New York on Nov. 3, a...
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Meet the U.S. Ambassador Who’s a Reality TV Star in Denmark
vanityfair.comCourtesy of SRRufus Gifford is changing the way Danes see Americans, one episode at at time.BY LISA LIEBMANHave you heard the one about the American ambassador with his own reality show?...
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Under Secretary Stengel Travels to Japan and Malaysia
state.govimage fromMedia NoteOffice of the SpokespersonWashington, DCNovember 16, 2015Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel will travel to Japan and Malaysia, November...
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Remembering Texas
image from entryMaria Lattouf Abou Atmi, Content coordinator, CPD Weekend, uscpublicdiplomacy.orgNov 13, 2015Anyone who has been keeping up with the news recently can tell you that Texas has a strange...
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