by Mark Dillen | Mar 29, 2010 | Monitor
Along the gradient of power, there’s a possible mix of “soft” and “hard” varieties. The public diplomacy originating at the U.S. State Department is commonly associated with the “soft” power of peaceful persuasion and...
by editor | Mar 28, 2010 | Analysis, Counterterrorism, Government, Indonesia, Movements, Southeast Asia
by Mark Woodward, Ali Amin and Inayah Rohmaniyah* In recent months, Indonesian security forces, including the US-trained Detachment 88, have proven to be increasingly effective in locating, capturing or killing suspected terrorists. But police power alone will never...
by Mark Dillen | Mar 12, 2010 | Monitor
Readers of this space know there’s been a recent flurry of public activity by those who set the course of U.S. communications efforts with foreign publics. This week’s unusual Congressional hearing on the State Department’s public diplomacy programs...
by editor | Mar 10, 2010 | Complexity, Diplomacy, Image, Narrative, Sensemaking, State Dept., Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman A new “strategic framework” for U.S. Public Diplomacy has at long last been released. Oddly, it is a slide show rather than a paper, but perhaps that’s because it is to be the basis for a briefing today. My colleague Phil Seib has...
by fleischer | Mar 9, 2010 | Language, Popular Culture, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Kristin Fleischer In his book Fighting the War of Ideas like Real War: Messages to Defeat the Terrorists, J. Michael Waller argues that the United States already has a “secret weapon worse than death,” and it is cheap, readily available and easy to deploy. That...
