by Craig Hayden | Apr 13, 2012 | Monitor
The title to this post comes from 20th century literary and rhetorical critic Kenneth Burke. It suggests the capacity of language to constrain our actions. It’s a pragmatic stance on the power of language to shape what we can and should do, that how we talk...
by Marc Lynch | Apr 13, 2012 | Monitor
Few diplomatic initiatives have faced more skepticism than Kofi Annan’s plan for Syria, and for good reason. Annan’s six point plan may have been the only game in town, but its limited mandate reflected by necessity the demands of a divided Security...
by Craig Hayden | Apr 10, 2012 | Monitor
So I’m still trying to digest all that I learned from this year’s International Studies Association annual convention. For the first time, there was simply no way to attend all the panels pertaining to public diplomacy and strategic communication....
by admin | Apr 9, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Framing, Narrative, Politics, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman Last month, James Appathurai, NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, agreed to participate in an electronic Q&A sponsored by the Atlantic Community. He answered 20 questions in four...
by Marc Lynch | Apr 8, 2012 | Monitor
Few international institutions have been more congenitally irrelevant than the League of Arab States. It’s problems are structural: a Charter rooted in the protection of state sovereignty, an autocratic and inept membership, a façade of Arab unity hardly...
