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SOFT POWER OF ART: LIFELONG CULTURAL COMMITMENT PAYS DIPLOMATIC DIVIDENDS
NOV 9, 2010
Posted by Wendy Luers
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Via The Washington Diplomat, November 2010


The power of culture can often be underestimated as a diplomatic tool, but cultural exchange can not only serve as a universal icebreaker, it can tear down walls and build bridges between the most hardened of enemies. It may not turn foes into instant friends, but it does allow nations to find points of commonality that transcend politics. As a young Stanford University graduate working as a journalist with San Francisco Magazine and Time in the 1960s and ’70s in San Francisco, I quickly realized the prevailing counterculture was having a profound effect on my worldview. For five years, working…... Full Text
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