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FEB 8, 2012
Deadline Nears in ‘Serving Abroad’ Photo Contest
U.S. Department of Defense
The State Department’s Art in Embassies program...is one of the premier public-private partnership arts organizations in continuous operation in 180 countries worldwide...It plays an important role in U.S. public diplomacy through a culturally expansive mission that creates temporary exhibits and permanent collections, artist and cultural exchange programming, and publications, they added.
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FEB 8, 2012
U.S. planning to reduce the size of the Embassy Baghdad
Mountain Runner
A vestige of the “anti-public diplomacy” of the previous decade is likely to get trimmed. The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, a giant of a compound that dwarfs in physical size and the number of people of any other diplomatic post, U.S. or otherwise, is likely to shrink. According to The New York Times, the compound costs $6 billion annually. (Seriously?)
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FEB 8, 2012
LIPIEN: VOA harms Putin opposition in Russia
Washington Times
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the agency in charge of critical U.S. information programs to countries such as Iran, China and Russia, can only be described as a failed enterprise in need of emergency surgery.
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FEB 8, 2012
Will Iran Be Attacked?
Foreign Policy Journal
Timothy H. Parsons in his book, The Rule of Empires, describes the Romans as “deft practitioners of soft power.” Rome preferred to rule the conquered and the potentially hostile through “semiautonomous client kings which the Senate euphemistically termed ‘friends of the Roman people.’
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FEB 8, 2012
Davos in Reflection: Global Risks Meet Global Inaction
CPD Blog
In reading through various reports from Davos last week, I couldn’t help but wonder with all that power amassed – over 4500 attendees to include hundreds of heads of state and CEOs – and all the current crises compounding on the world’s stage, might something different result.
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