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MAPPING THE PLAYBOOK: TO FACILITATE A MORE COLLABORATIVE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
JAN 13, 2011
 Posted by Ali Fisher
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Partnership, cooperation, and collaboration are recognized by most, if not all, as an important part of 21st century public diplomacy. One important challenge in developing a more collaborative public diplomacy is the need to identify the opportunities and resources to put the collaborative aspiration into action. This task might be simplified if we recognize the bureaucratic infrastructure as a series of connections – or networks. The task is then to map that network and recognize potential areas of common experience and opportunity for collaboration. The potential of this approach can be demonstrated using the data from The Playbook. From this…... Full Text
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ENTERING THE NETWORK PHASE IN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
MAR 26, 2010
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Written by: Gerard Lemos and Ali Fisher Full Text
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THE IRANIAN ELECTION: FOLLOWING A CONVERSATION
OCT 5, 2009
 Posted by Ali Fisher
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The response by individuals using Twitter to the Iranian election provides important perspectives for the scholarship and practice of Public Diplomacy. Since last June’s election in Iran, updates of developments have appeared on Twitter alongside messages of support for protesters and celebratory tweets when websites from one side or the other were taken down. This spawned a number of press articles focusing on Iran’s Twitter Revolution. More traditional news sources have been either struggling to keep pace with events or have been criticized for the slow speed with which particularly cable news began to cover the protests. As Brian Stelter…... Full Text
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THE SPECTRUM OF SPECTRUMS: A REVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS POSITIONING SPECTRUM
SEP 26, 2008
 Posted by Ali Fisher
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John Worne’s International Relations Positioning Spectrum (IRPS), and Nick Cull’s response provide interesting perspectives on the Cultural Relations / Public Diplomacy ‘divide’ and how work in the field is to be articulated. The IRPS appears a useful tool at the national level to help mediate in interdepartmental turf wars. However, the IRPS contains national peculiarities, specifically the difficulty the British Council faces in articulating its position, making it unlikely to become transferable internationally. This is best divided into two sections, first discussing the spectrum itself and second how this reflects the difficulty of articulating the position of the British Council.…... Full Text
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