by editor | Oct 11, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Media, Narrative
by Karina Sandhu Beginning September 11, 2001 and ending on May 2, 2011, in the eyes of many Americans, the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, was born, raised, lived, and died. Despite the fact that al-Qaeda was founded in 1989 and continues to exist today, many...
by lundry | Nov 11, 2010 | Media, Sensemaking, State Dept., technology, Terrorism 2.0
by Cameron Bean Since November of 2006, the State Department has taken its public diplomacy efforts into the online arena of Arabic, Urdu, and Persian discussion boards. Heading this effort is the Digital Outreach Team (DOT). According to DOT member Muath Alsufy, the...
by editor | Sep 10, 2010 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Framing, Government, Image, Islam, Media, Narrative, Obama, Religion, Sensemaking, State Dept., Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry This series has examined the reaction, mostly in mainstream news sources of foreign Muslim societies, to the recent surge in anti-Islam events in the United States. Part I focused on the Park51 (or Cordoba...
by editor | Apr 5, 2009 | Analysis, Framing, Language, Obama
by Steven R. Corman Well it’s official. Earlier last week AP reported comments from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the government is no longer using the phrase “global war on terror” (GWOT): The administration has stopped using the phrase...
by editor | Jan 20, 2009 | Diplomacy, Government
by Steven R. Corman Yesterday Walter Pincus at WaPo published an article entitled Clinton’s Goals Detailed that contains the first news I’ve seen about how the Obama administration intends to fix U.S. public diplomacy. The second paragraph says: In the...
by editor | Dec 1, 2008 | Diplomacy, Government, Image
by Steven R. Corman With news that the Hillary Clinton pick for Secretary of State is final, I thought it might be useful to summarize what she had to say one year ago in her essay for Foreign Affairs (subscription link). Of course, these were her priorities as an...
