by editor | Jan 27, 2009 | Analysis, Framing, Image, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman In November of last year I published an op-ed piece expressing my hope that President Barack Obama would follow-through with his campaign pledges to use humility to help repair the country’s image with Muslims abroad. In his first week in...
by editor | Nov 5, 2008 | Image, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman In a widely-read white paper published last year, my colleagues and I pointed out that strategic communication operates in a complex worldwide system. One feature of such systems is that they can develop inertia, stubbornly insisting on...
by editor | Sep 27, 2008 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Image, Politics
by Steven R. Corman You would think that any presidential debate on foreign policy would have to spend a lot of time talking about how American policy is perceived and how its perception influences our ability to project power, pursue our strategies, and achieve our...
by editor | Feb 29, 2008 | Framing, Image, Media, Politics
by Steven R. Corman Firstread is reporting (by way of Evan Kohlmann of GlobalTerrorAlert) that the flap over a photo of Barack Obama in tribal gear has been picked up on the al Qaeda forum al Hesbah: Al Qaeda sympathizers cited the image as evidence that American...
by editor | Feb 21, 2008 | Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman We often tend to think of U.S. strategic communication problems as having to do with our messages to the rest of the world. To be sure, that is an area where we need a lot of work. But it’s easy to become over-focused on the external aspects...
