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FEB 19, 2009
A Proposed Strategy for Public Diplomacy
The Washington Independent
The White Oak signatories are critical of the "war of ideas" approach but definitely reject the public-relations model.
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SEP 30, 2008
Hearing Assesses State of Public Diplomacy
Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange
At a Congressional hearing last week, a senior U.S. Senator described U.S. public diplomacy as being 'arguably at its lowest point in history.' To address that problem, a former Member of Congress testified that what is needed is 'a Marshall Plan for international exchange'. [membership required]
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SEP 30, 2008
My 2 Cents on the Brownback bill: Initial Language and Justifications
Intermap (blog)
Senator Brownback’s latest piece of legislation, “the Strategic Communication Act of 2008” is a landmark proposal to reform U.S. public diplomacy efforts at the institutional level – by creating a new National Strategic Communication Center that fuses the responsibilities of the Broadcast Board of Governors with the public diplomacy functions managed by the State Department. There is a lot to digest in the bill’s language, in terms of language, strategy, institutional dynamics and policy implications. I will address these in a series of posts, starting with a discussion of the justificatory assumptions behind the bill. First and foremost – this bill effectively discards the term “public diplomacy” to name the institutional function of this center. Public diplomacy becomes what the “National Strategic Communication Center” does.
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SEP 23, 2008
Brownback Introduces Public Diplomacy Legislation
The Fort Scott Tribune
U.S. Senator Sam Brownback today introduced legislation that would establish the National Center for Strategic Communications, an agency similar to the now defunct U.S. Information Agency...In addition to establishing a new public diplomacy agency, Brownback's proposal would abolish the existing Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy at the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
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