by editor | Mar 10, 2010 | Complexity, Diplomacy, Image, Narrative, Sensemaking, State Dept., Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman A new “strategic framework” for U.S. Public Diplomacy has at long last been released. Oddly, it is a slide show rather than a paper, but perhaps that’s because it is to be the basis for a briefing today. My colleague Phil Seib has...
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 | Jan 14, 2010 | Afghanistan, Image, Pakistan, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman Yesterday the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan over the last year. It concluded that “2009 proved to be the deadliest year yet for civilians since the fall of...
by editor | Dec 12, 2009 | Analysis, Image, Islam, Language, Media
by Mark Woodward* The terminology used in English and other European languages to discuss Islam, and especially Muslim political movements, shifts constantly. There is a general consensus, shared by many in the Muslim world, that “radical” and...
by editor | Dec 1, 2009 | Image, Narrative, Sensemaking
by Steven R. Corman Last Friday, Thomas Friedman published and op-ed in the New York Times entitled America vs. The Narrative in which he expressed bewilderment/exasperation that the anti-U.S narrative is getting so much traction in the Muslim world: Yes, after two...
by editor | Apr 19, 2009 | Image, technology
by Steven R. Corman I just ran across this interesting release from Gallup. It cross-analyzes data from Gallup’s Communications Index “which measures the extent to which respondents are connected via electronic communications” and approval of U.S....
