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What We Are Reading

Rebel-on-Rebel Violence Seizes Syria Nour Malas / The Wall Street Journal  “Some FSA fighters now consider the extremists to be as big a threat to their survival as the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.  ‘It’s a three-front war,’ a U.S. official said…”   A...

This Week in Public Diplomacy July 15, 2013

City diplomacy integral to boosting economic, cultural exchanges Global Times Along with China’s increasing involvement in the international community, city diplomacy has become one of the most important elements that determine China’s future position in...

Challenges to U.S. Public Diplomacy in North Korea

Since its establishment in 1948, the United States has never had a formal diplomatic relationship with North Korea. As North Korea continues to expand its nuclear weapons program and adopts an increasingly belligerent rhetoric one must ask: can the U.S. make effective...

What We Are Reading

Protesters to Egypt’s Morsy: You Have One Day To Step Down Salma Abdelaziz / CNN Egyptians who helped overthrow a 29-year dictatorship in a widely hailed revolution have now given the country’s first democratically elected president one day to step down from...

This Week in Public Diplomacy 10 June, 2013

North Koreans get business internships in Singapore Tom Benner/The Atlantic The Choson Exchange, a Singapore-registered non-profit, for the past three years has regularly sent volunteers to Pyongyang and Rason, and more recently brought North Koreans to Singapore,...