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The CPD Blog is intended to stimulate dialog among scholars, researchers, practitioners and professionals from around the world in the public diplomacy sphere. The opinions represented here are the authors' own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School.
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JAN 5, 2010
Posted by Daryl Copeland
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With the rising tide of violence in Pakistan, the controversial surge into Afghanistan, the multilateral meltdown on climate change at COP 15, and tales of possible terrorist plots, it is easy to overlook what has been going on in Europe, where I spent considerable time this fall on a book tour. On November 9th I found myself with friends at the Brandenburg Gate, attending the commemorative ceremony organized to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, the re-unification of Germany and Europe, and the end of the Cold War.
That is a lot to celebrate, but... Full Text
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OCT 7, 2009
Posted by Daryl Copeland
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If public diplomacy (PD) is understudied as a discipline, then even less is known about PD as practiced - or not - by less developed countries (LDCs) and their representatives abroad.
In constructing the research base upon which the argumentation presented in Guerrilla Diplomacy rests, I noted that the literature is largely silent on the thinking of developing country foreign ministries, diplomats or academics about PD per se. There is little data on their PD objectives, resources and performance. Not enough is known about how - and if - the tools and techniques of public diplomacy are being used, or... Full Text
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SEP 10, 2009
Posted by Daryl Copeland
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Lately I have been thinking and writing about the relationship between science, technology, diplomacy and international policy. I covered these issues in my new book, but because I will be teaching a course on this stuff at the University of Toronto in January, I have been updating my research and trying to push the analysis a bit.
I have often made the case that although a diplomatic renaissance is long overdue, the fundamental reform of diplomacy’s major institutions (the foreign ministry and foreign service) and practices (traditional, state-centric representation) is an absolute prerequisite. This in turn will implicate a more... Full Text
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JUN 16, 2009
Posted by Daryl Copeland
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Notwithstanding its many virtues, there are all kinds of possible pitfalls associated with public diplomacy.
For starters, PD is done mainly, though not exclusively, by diplomats. Diplomats work for states. States have interests. So when your friendly emissary wants to enjoin you in conversation, it is more likely to be directed rather than free-form. It is almost certain that he or she will be looking for something — a pearl of insight, a gem of intelligence, support for a policy or politician ... something. And that is just one of the many paradoxes which separate the theory of public diplomacy,... Full Text
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APR 1, 2009
Posted by Daryl Copeland
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Earlier this month, a blue ribbon panel, appointed in 2008 by Australia’s Lowy Institute for International Policy to enquire into that country's foreign ministry and representational capacity, reported a deep diplomatic deficit and has recommended sweeping reform and major reinvestment. The findings, which include a series of recommendations on public diplomacy, are widely applicable and warrant close inspection.
The short of it, made plain in this and many other studies, is that foreign ministries, and the conventional diplomatic business model which they embody, have not adapted well to the challenges of the globalization era. They are rigid rather than fluid and hierarchic rather than... Full Text
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