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Fighting Terrorism on the Digital Battlefield
Gregory Clay, insidesources.comImage from article, with caption: The "Iron Throne" from HBO's Game of Thrones.When fighting terrorism with military force, the United States, if it so chooses, is...
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Communications V.P. Eileen O’Connor brings experience in public affairs, law,...
news.yale.eduimage fromExcerpt:Eileen O’Connor, who during her career has worked in public affairs, law, and journalism, has been appointed vice president for communications, President Peter Salovey...
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Health Diplomacy: A Step Towards Peace
huffingtonpost.comimage fromFollowing the attacks in Paris late last year, Somali-British poet Warsan Shire's poem,What they did yesterday afternoon, flooded the Internet in response. The poem...
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Edward R. Murrow – A Propaganda Hound
BBGWatcher, BBG WatchJanuary 5, 2016CommentaryTed Lipien, who is one of BBG Watch’s sponsors and supporters, has agreed to write for us from time to time on the history of U.S. international...
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Blast from the Past: The Voice of America and propaganda
[Note: The purpose of the below article was to provide food for thought -- a thought experiment, if you will, bringing a premise to its logical conclusion.] John Brown, "Propaganda, Public Diplomacy...
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Sri Lanka’s Maithripala Sirisena Is No Stranger to Politics
A recently published article on USAID’s blog is cause for concern.image fromTaylor Dibbert, The DiplomatA recent article by two people working with the United States Agency for International...
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"How Washington Can Win the Information War" by David Ensor
Adam Clayton Powell III, publicdiplomacycouncil.orgMonday, January 4th 2016Here is the prepared text of remarks by David Ensor, former Director, Voice of America, at the January 4, 2016, PDC / USC...
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pnasa.blogfa.comFirst Week AssignmentA Short Brief on Rethinking Public DiplomacyBy Nancy SnowSnow linked public diplomacy with power. especially “Soft Power” i.e. in tangible or indirect influence...
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Diplomacy's Public Dimension: Books, Articles, Websites #78
image fromThe following is courtesy of Professor Bruce Gregory. Via LJB by email.------------------------------------------------------------------------Diplomacy's Public Dimension: Books, Articles,...
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In Putin’s Russia, Art Looks at You
Carolyn Stewart, the-american-interest.com; via AH on Facebookimage from entryWhat you can learn about Russian geopolitics at an art show in Venice.The only thing more disconcerting than coming...
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Call for new U.S. information czar by former VOA Director
communicationleadership.usc.eduBy Adam PowellJanuary 5, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C. – American information programs are underfunded and disorganized, and a new coordinator of all U.S. international...
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MK Oren calls for ‘Hasbara Iron Dome’ against boycotts
Lahav Harkov, jpost.comKnesset Caucus to Fight Delegitimization to hold conference on fighting BDS.Oren image from articleMK Michael Oren (Kulanu) called for the government to intensify the fight...
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Putin’s attacks on Obama ugly, desperate
stripes.comimage fromBy Paula J. Dobriansky and David B. Rivkin Jr. Special to The Washington PostPublished: January 5, 2016Although international relations are not conducted under Marquess of...
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Soccer highlights domestic drivers in Saudi-Iranian dispute
James Dorsey, thearabdailynews.comimage fromExcerpt:Saudi Arabia and Iran, highlighting the domestic drivers of mounting tension that threatens to deepen and complicate sectarian and multiple other...
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Quotable: Tabitha Speelman on a Chinese news app
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgMonday, January 4th 2016“Before the Internet age, it used to be relatively straightforward for authoritarian regimes to dictate popular news consumption: just control all the...
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Faire l’amour is top U.S. news today on Voice of America French
bbgwatch.comBBGWatcher October 19, 2015BBG Watch CommentaryUPDATE: After BBG Watch posts were published and after the sex-before-jail report stayed on the Voice of America French to Africa Service...
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December Blog Roundup: The Top 5
uscpublicdiplomacy.orgJan 4, 2016Ring in the New Year by checking out the top December posts from the CPD Blog.5) ISIS at India's Doorstep: Online Counterterrorism by Sanjay Srivastava and Sonali...
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At Rabin funeral, Netanyahu lamented that PM died a ‘hero,’ US diplomat says
Rebeca Shimoni Stoil, January 6, 2016, timesofisrael.comimage fromJerusalem denies claims aired in PBS film on the fraught ties between the Israeli leader and Obama’s White HouseExcerpt:Tuesday night...
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The Four Freedoms: A Campaign Revisited
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgWednesday, January 6th 2016The Four Freedoms: A Campaign RevisitedDonald M. BishopSeventy-five years ago, in his State of the Union Address of January 6, 1941, President...
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An edited (censored?) New York Times Headline pertaining to Public Diplomacy
image from below-cited article "North Korea Says It Has D...onated Its First Hydrogen Bomb to [... the Study of Public Diplomacy]."--Edited/Censored? NYT headline "North Korea Says It Has Detonated Its...
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