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What We Are Reading

Egypt: Spotlight on Politics, But Economic Challenges Growing Nikhil Lohade / Wall Street Journal While politics remains at the front and center for now, Egypt’s economy continues to flounder – and needs some urgent attention too. How the Ukraine Crisis May Complicate...

What We Are Reading

Possible Flights between US and Iran RFE/RL Following his conciliatory speech at the UN, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani raised the possibility of resuming direct flights between Iran and the US.  Direct flights between the two countries have not occurred in more...

This Week in Public Diplomacy August 5, 2013

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...

On Dealing with the Hermit Kingdom

By Patricia H Kushlis Does North Korea’s leadership belong in the madhouse or Alcatraz as so many of our right wing politicians, militarists and some journalists seem to suggest?  Or are they behaving as sanely – at least from their perspective – as their...