by editor | Aug 29, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Image, Public Diplomacy & Strategic Communication, Publications
by Steven R. Corman I have been following developments in public diplomacy for close to twelve years now. Lately I have noticed something new: Messages in my inbox from Tara Sonenshine, the new Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (whose...
by editor | Jul 5, 2012 | Africa, Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Image, Islam
By Bennett Furlow and Jeffry Halverson Over the past week a militant Islamist group operating in Mali called Ansar Dine has destroyed a number of Sufi mausoleums and the legendary gate of a 600-year-old mosque in the fabled city of Timbuktu. Many news reports have...
by admin | May 7, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Counterterrorism, Framing, Image, Intelligence, Movements, Strategic Comm.
By Steven R. Corman & Jarret Brachman The release last week of documents captured from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbotabad has generated a flurry of interest in the press and blogosphere. Yet a question has arisen as to whether the release was wise, since the...
by editor | Mar 19, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Counterterrorism, Diplomacy, Image, Obama, Politics, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman In previous posts I have advocated amplifying al-Qaeda’s record of killing Muslims, and argued this practice was doing serious damage toAQ’s brand. Captured documents from bin Laden’s compound indicate that he was worried about...
by lundry | Jan 18, 2012 | Afghanistan, Image, Indonesia, Iraq, Media, Military, Southeast Asia
by Chris Lundry (with R. Bennett Furlow) It did not take long for the images of the US Marines urinating on corpses of Taliban fighters to go viral. A moment of lapsed judgment will circulate as long as anyone is interested in seeing it, certainly long after short...
by editor | Sep 26, 2011 | Diplomacy, Image, Southeast Asia
by Steven R. Corman As Congress is once again behaving badly, I thought I would post a brief note about some interactions I have had while visiting Asia. Comments here show that what many of us regard as “inside baseball” matters a lot to foreign publics,...