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Is this man Israel's next prime minister?
Mazal Mualem, al-monitor.comImage from article, with caption: Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (C) walks with supporters as he campaigns in the southern city of Ashdod, March 15, 2015Excerpt:At Washington’s...
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Sony CEO Michael Lynton on surviving the 2014 hack, making money in an...
businessinsider.com.auBusiness Insider IGNITION 2015David Brancaccio (L) interviews Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton (R) at Business Insider’s IGNITION 2015 conference.Excerpt:Michael Lynton has been...
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Media Release: European Union Film Festival Wraps Up 30th Edition
wireservice.caimage fromThe Canadian Film Institute (CFI), the Delegation of the European Union to Canada and the Embassies of EU Member States have wrapped up the 30th annual European Film Festival...
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Clinton Aide Who Avoided FOIA Insists He Didn’t Want to Avoid FOIA When He...
J.K. Trotter, gawker.comimage fromExcerpt:Former State Department official and longtime Hillary Clinton operative Philippe Reines has repeatedly stated that his email practices at State were...
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CISA opponents fight on despite long odds
Alex Byers, Kate Tummarello, politico.com, 12/17/15 10:00 AM ESTStengel image from [link contains an August 14, 2015 MSNBC interview with Stengel] Excerpt:STENGEL PRAISES TECH FIRMS, DOESN'T HATE ON...
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Is Taylor Swift America's #1 Public Diplomat?
uscpublicdiplomacy.orgSwift image from entryHear U.S. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel's views on American soft power and non-state actors in his discussion with...
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War and Peace in a Jittery Nation: Obama's Last Year and After
Derek Shearer, Professor of Diplomacy at Occidental College and former US ambassador, huffingtonpost.comimage fromExcerpt:Other non-fiction works of the past year that I've enjoyed and feel are helpful...
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Half Of The United States Lives In These Counties: Note for a Lecture, "E...
Walter Hickey and Joe Weisenthal, businessinsider.com (2013); via SRJ on FacebookUsing Census data, we've figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest...
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Will Broadcasting Board of Governors Reform Itself?
bbgwatch.comEXCLUSIVE BBG Watch Report With A Commentary [includes video]The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in charge of U.S. international media outreach, had its public...
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Hooray for the Snitches of Breaking the Silence
Gideon Levy, haaretz.comImage from article, with caption: Breaking the Silence employees at the organization's Tel Aviv office, December 16, 2015.The Israeli soldiers who expose the crimes of the...
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More collaboration with tech companies needed to counter Islamic State online
fcw.comBy Aisha ChowdhryDec 17, 2015The State Department wants to increase collaboration with the private sector and push for more data analytics on what is and is not working in its efforts to counter...
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Tokyo 2020 Vice-Director General, CSO and Spokesperson Appointed
aroundtherings.comOno image fromExcerpt:The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee Executive Board today appointed three new organising committee members who will commence their duties in January 2016....
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Counterterrorism Challenges: The Role of Technology
Yonah Alexander and Michael B. Kraft, huffingtonpost.comImage from, under the headline: "The pseudoscience of countering violent extremism"Excerpt:International terrorism is nothing new but the latest...
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Into the Fray: A challenge to a French philosopher
Martin Sherman, jpost.comLévy image from article"Bernard- Henri Lévy is precisely the kind of target that Israeli public diplomacy efforts should be focused on – far more so than any incumbent...
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Column One: Rubio, Cruz and US global leadership
Caroline B. Glick, jpost.comGlick image fromExceerpt:At some point between 2006 and 2008, the American people decided to turn their backs on the world. Between the seeming futility of the war in Iraq...
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Sahitya Akademi awards to Kula Saikia, Brajen Brahma
assamtribune.comSpl Correspondent NEW DELHI, Dec 17 - Additional Director of Assam Police Kula Saikia has been honoured with this year’s Sahitya Akademi Award for his short-story collection Akashar...
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Cemalettin Hasimi, Coordinator of the Public Diplomacy Office at the Turkish...
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What Angola Can Tell Us About CPD’s Youth & Evaluation Initiatives
Joseph Cabosky, Meghan Sobel, uscpublicdiplomacy.orguncaptioned image from articleDec 17, 2015There is an informative intersection of research initiatives, both geographically and topically, when...
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Soft Power and Emerging Education Hubs in Asia
uscpublicdiplomacy.orguncaptioned image from articleDec 17, 2015Jack Lee, professor of Higher Education at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, has published a new article. His piece, “Soft Power and...
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Quotable: Hillary Clinton on defeating ISIS
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgThursday, December 17th 2015“It's imperative that the Saudis, the Qataris, the Kuwaitis and others stop their citizens from supporting radical schools, madrassas and mosques...
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