by justus | Feb 29, 2008 | Islam, Politics
By: Z. S. Justus A recent large-scale poll by the Gallup organization has painted a picture of the Islamic world that may be surprising to many Americans. The group surveyed 50,000 Muslims in 40 countries representing over 90% of the world’s Muslims. In a...
by editor | Feb 29, 2008 | Framing, Image, Media, Politics
by Steven R. Corman Firstread is reporting (by way of Evan Kohlmann of GlobalTerrorAlert) that the flap over a photo of Barack Obama in tribal gear has been picked up on the al Qaeda forum al Hesbah: Al Qaeda sympathizers cited the image as evidence that American...
by goodall | Feb 28, 2008 | Diplomacy, Media, Strategic Comm.
by Bud Goodall In a recent speech given to the Heritage foundation, Colleen Graffy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs asserted that the main problem with U. S. public diplomacy is that we aren’t getting the word out about how well our...
by editor | Feb 26, 2008 | Diplomacy, Government
by Steven R. Corman A couple of weeks ago the State Department released the report of its Advisory Committee on Transformational Diplomacy. It strikes me as an odd exercise in that it doesn’t define clear problems, doesn’t talk about diplomacy much, and...
by editor | Feb 21, 2008 | Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman We often tend to think of U.S. strategic communication problems as having to do with our messages to the rest of the world. To be sure, that is an area where we need a lot of work. But it’s easy to become over-focused on the external aspects...
