by Christian Mull | Aug 7, 2013 | Monitor
How Do You Rebrand a Country? David Zax/Smithsonian Magazine It was May 2011 and Mizuki Takahashi, an art curator in the Japanese city of Mito, couldn’t believe the irony. A mere two months before, her country had been battered by the “triple disaster” of an...
by Christian Mull | Aug 2, 2013 | Monitor
ASP’s CEO Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, USMC (Ret.) co-wrote an op-ed piece in Stars and Stripes with Lieutenant General Norman Seip and Brigadier General John Adams urging policy makers to fill high ranking diplomatic positions at the State Department which have...
by Christian Mull | Aug 2, 2013 | Monitor
In thinking about public diplomacy, one usually thinks of radio broadcasts, exchange programs, television ads, newspaper prints, embassy events, internet videos and speaking tours. While these modes of public diplomacy are perhaps the most common, there are many...
by Christian Mull | Aug 1, 2013 | Monitor
After a nineteen month hiatus, the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (ACPD) was reauthorized and signed into law under H.R. 4310, Section 1280; the authorization is retroactive to October 1, 2010 and continues through to October 1, 2015. The...
by Christian Mull | Jul 31, 2013 | Monitor
Cyber Jihadists, State Department Now In Full-Blown Twitter War Will McCants/Foreign Policy Since 2011, the State Department has sponsored a Digital Outreach Team tasked with countering al Qaeda propaganda on the Internet. In its brief existence, it’s difficult...
