by halverson | Mar 2, 2010 | Analysis, Counterterrorism, Diplomacy, Education, Image, Islam, Media, Popular Culture, State Dept., Strategic Comm.
by Jeff Halverson In the war of ideas for the “hearts and minds” of the Muslim world, cultural diplomacy can go a long way. The US government may not be very popular abroad, but our cultural products certainly are. Many Muslims hate our policies, but they...
by editor | Oct 29, 2009 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman A debate has once again re-ignited over the relative meaning of Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication, sparked this time by a keynote by Bruce Gregory at GWU on October 5. It was rejoined by Amb. William Rugh in an email exchange with...
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 gilpin | Jan 12, 2009 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Media, Strategic Comm.
by Dawn R. Gilpin Israel’s deployment of social media, including a Twitter news conference over the Gaza situation, has been in the news lately. As an example of media response to these efforts in the U.S., the New York Times cited MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow as...
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...
by nbrody | Nov 25, 2008 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Media, Strategic Comm., technology
by Nicholas Brody This is the fourth part of a five part series on about the one-year anniversary of the State Department’s Dipnote blog. In Part 1 we focused on reviewing DipNote management and processes. In Part 2 we looked at what the State Department bloggers...
