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John Brown aggregates all the most recent public diplomacy related news, including current issues in U.S. foreign policy, international broadcasting and media, propaganda, cultural diplomacy, educational exchanges, anti-Americanism, and the reception of American popular culture abroad.

PDPBR FOR JANUARY 26-28
by John H. Brown

PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PRESS AND BLOG REVIEW, JANUARY 26-28, 2007 “HOW CAN YOU BE RAFFINÉ, MUCH LESS STRIDENTLY WHITMANESQUE, ON A CAMPUS IN NEBRASKA?” —Jim Harrison, “Don’t Feed the Poets” (New York Times, January 28) LINK “I HAVE NEVER FELT INCLINED TO CONDEMN PEOPLE WHO LOOK FOR DIRT IN LITERATURE: LOOKING FOR DIRT, THEY MAY FIND SOMETHING ELSE.” —Author Anthony Burgess; cited in John Sutherland, “Lusty Literature: How Does a Book Go from Being an Obscenity to Being a Classic?” (Washington Post, January 28) LINK RECENT ISSUE OF PLACE BRANDING: A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BRANDING, MARKETING AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY FOR NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND CIVIC DEVELOPMENT (OCTOBER 2006) Includes following articles: Simon Anholt, “Public diplomacy and place branding: Where’s the link?” LINK John Brown, “Book Review—The Perils of Propaganda: Lessons from the Cold War [review of Michael L. Krenn, “Fallout Shelters for the Human Spirit: American Art and the Cold War”; Kenneth Osgood, “Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad”; Chris Tudda, “The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles”]. SEE BELOW RELATED ITEMS 14, 73. LINK NEW BLOG OF INTEREST Smart Power Blog: Discussing hard power, soft power, and a mixture of the two, a little something we like to call smart power LINK CITED AT LINK A) PUBLIC DIPLOMACY (1-23) 1. BUSH PHONES ARROYO, HAILS RP SUCCESSES AGAINST ABU SAYYAF – (GMA NEWS.TV, PHILIPPINES, JANUARY 27). On Friday, Karen Hughes, US undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, congratulated the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for killing leaders of the brutal al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group. She said a combination of military operations that killed the country’s two top militants and US-backed humanitarian work in the impoverished Mindanao presents a model in the war on terrorism. LINK 2. US OFFICIAL PRAISES [KAREN HUGHES] PHILIPPINES FOR SUCCESS IN WAR ON TERROR – DOUGLAS BAKSHIAN (VOICE OF AMERICA, JANUARY 27) LINK SEE ALSO LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK 3. KAREN HUGHES IN THE STRONGHOLD OF THE ABU SAYYAF – WRETCHARD (BELMONT CLUB, JANUARY 15): It’s good to see that Ms. Hughes and US Ambassador to Manila Kristie Kenny are out there. God bless them. LINK 4. U.S. CONGRESS SHOULD PROBE INTO MILITARY AID TO ARROYO GOV’T – (BULATLAT, PHILIPPINES, JANUARY 27): Under Secretary Karen Hughes, whose job is to sell U.S. foreign policy abroad specifically Bush’s “war on terrorism” and blunt any negative publicity that may jeopardize the war efforts in Iraq, came on a well-publicized mission to the Philippines last week at a time when her own president is facing resistance in the US Congress over his plan to deploy 21,000 more troops to Iraq. Hughes is expected to drumbeat in America the US-assisted Philippine military “feats” against the ASG in an effort to dampen Bush’s negative rating attributed to the Iraq quagmire. LINK 5. TIME FOR A NEW APPROACH TO INTERROGATION - RAJ PUROHIT (ACROSS THE AISLE, DC, JANUARY 25): “I also strongly believe that the use…... FULL TEXT
 
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