Getting Some Leverage for Public Diplomacy
A good friend and respected colleague, currently the Public Affairs Officer in Brazil, has penned a note about a public diplomacy tool that is too often overlooked -- the binational center.read more
View Article2013 Forum: Religion and Public Diplomacy - Essential to Get it Right
SUMMARY of BREAKOUT SESSION-RELIGION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY Moderator: Peter Kovach, retired Foreign Service Officer at the Department of State, USIA Speakers: Imam Bashar Arafat, President of the...
View ArticleQuotable: James Krakar on “engagement”
Because Public Diplomacy officers have, more often than not, studied international relations and communication, lived and worked overseas, had focused training at the Foreign Service Institute, and...
View ArticleQuotable: Tara Sonenshine on countering the ISIS narrative with smart power
usip.org “What would motivate a young person to join the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or any terrorist group and risk their lives to take the lives of others?” asked Tara Sonenshine, former...
View ArticleQuotable: Stewart Eales on Promoting Democracy
“The four post-Cold War presidents share three things in common with regard to the promotion of democracy: all embraced it as an American responsibility, spoke of it in idealist terms that envisioned a...
View ArticleQuotable: James R. McGrath on information warfare
Public diplomacy, public affairs, U.S. international broadcasting, and the armed forces’ information operations all – in different ways, different settings, and to different audiences – seek to make...
View ArticleQuotable: Public Diplomacy in Secretary Kerry’s “Cabinet Exit Memo”
"‘The United States is more secure, more respected, and more engaged in the world than we were when President Obama took office eight years ago. We have brought the international community together to...
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