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John Brown's Public Diplomacy Press & Blog Review Archive is an aggregation of 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 between January 2004 and February 2008.

PDPBR FOR AUGUST 22-23
by John H. Brown

PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PRESS AND BLOG REVIEW, AUGUST 22-23 QUOTATION FOR THE DAY ‘WE ARE NO LESS ENGAGED IN PROPAGANDA BECAUSE WE ARE TO MINIMIZE THE PROPAGANDISTIC.” —Theodore Streibert, the first Director of the United States Information Agency (1953-1999); cited in Kenneth Osgood, “Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad” (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2006), p. 98 A) PUBLIC DIPLOMACY 1. PROGRESSIVE REALISM FOR FUTURE AMERICA - JOSEPH S. NYE, JR. (KOREA HERALD, AUGUST 22): Many official instruments of soft power—public diplomacy, broadcasting, exchange programs, development assistance, disaster relief, military-to-military contacts—are scattered around the U.S. government, and there is no overarching policy, much less a common budget, to combine them with hard power into a coherent security strategy. LINK LINK MAY NOT BE ACCESSIBLE 2. NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEVIL: ANYBODY LISTENING? - PHIL BRENNAN (ETHER ZONE, AUGUST 23): Professor Ilan Berman, Vice President for Policy at the American Foreign Policy Council: “If it hopes to persevere in the battle for Iranian ‘hearts and minds,’ the United States must craft a clear message of hope and transformation that is continuously calibrated to the Iranian ‘marketplace’ ... . [I]f official public diplomacy channels are not up to the task, the U.S. government should empower U.S.-based NGOs capable of effectively carrying such a message.” LINK 3. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR SKIN? - APARNA PANDE (INDOLINK.COM, CA, AUGUST 22): A recent report by the Congressional Research Service pointed out that American foreign policy is undermining the effort of American public diplomacy to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the Muslim masses. LINK 4. US FAILS ON SECURITY SCORECARD - JOHN HUGHES (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, AUGUST 13): The bipartisan commission of inquiry into the 9/11 disaster was co-chaired by former New Jersey Republican Gov. Thomas H. Kean and former Indiana Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton. On public diplomacy, they welcome the increase in government broadcasting to the Arab and Muslim world but want to see more educational and cultural exchanges. LINK 5. CAPITOL CAPITAL GROUP TAX ISSUE ALERT – MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN (MONTHLY EBULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN BUSINESS COUNCIL OF THE GULF COUNTRIES [ABCGC], AUGUST 15, 2006, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 13): The ABCGC has written to new Secretary of the Treasury Paulson and to Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Karen Hughes, on the need to have a fair and competitive tax policy, and on the pressing need for more Americans to live, work and study abroad. LINK 6. “AFGHAN ROAD RAGE”: ON THE FRONTLINE OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, THE REAL PAOS – (MOUNTAIN RUNNER BLOG, AUGUST 19): A recent email (dated July 18) circulated to all Army general officers written by Command Sergeant Major Daniel Wood nails the application of public diplomacy in counter-insurgency. LINK 7.  “EASILY LED”—RUMSFELD’S PROPAGANDA “ROADMAP” DECLASSIFIED – (SILENCE ON THE WIRE MYSPACE BLOG): “Obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the National Security Archive at George Washington University and posted on the Web … the 74-page ‘Information Operations Roadmap’ admits that…... FULL TEXT
 
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