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OCT 27, 2010
Guitars, Google, and guns: a new view of Western power
The Christian Science Monitor
What the West needs most is a fresh look at the full range of its capabilities and interests. Only then can its power fulfill its purpose. Seen as a wonder tool, smart power has been embraced as a fresh and benign aspect of power; a definably formulaic mix of soft (cultural) power and hard (military) power.
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OCT 27, 2010
Space ministers press for co-operation to make exploration a reality
Flight International
Indeed, said [ESA Council chairman Giuseppe] Pizza, there is no question of achieving ambitious scientific objectives or opening a significant new chapter in space exploration without a global strategy, including the active participation of every European player.
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OCT 27, 2010
Cape Town opera snubs Tutu plea to cancel Israel tour
BBC News
South Africa's Cape Town Opera has turned down an appeal from Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu to call off a tour of Israel. He said it would be as inappropriate as it had been for international firms to visit South Africa during apartheid.
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OCT 27, 2010
‘S. Korea’s image undermined by confusion with North’
The Korea Times
“The frequent confusion between South and North Korea and global coverage on the North often undermine efforts to enhance our brand awareness,” Lee Bae-yong, chair of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding (PCNB), told an international forum in Seoul.
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OCT 27, 2010
Joseph Nye on global power shifts
Daily Exchange (video)
Historian and diplomat Joseph Nye gives us the 30,000-foot view of the shifts in power between China and the US, and the global implications as economic, political and "soft" power shifts and moves around the globe.
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OCT 27, 2010
America Refuses to Understand
Asharq Alawsat
Washington is also unable to understand the nature of this geographic region, and how the foreign element is one of the most important factors fueling the conflict in this region. The problem that Washington and its elite are having [in understanding this] is that they are looking at the world from the perspective of the American experience, which is very simple...
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OCT 26, 2010
Afghanistan War: How not to win over hearts and minds
Global Post
When officials from Radio Liberty invited me along for a press trip to Jalalabad to watch them distribute radios to the population, I jumped at the chance. After all the gloom and doom of previous weeks, I was desperate for a feel-good story...
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OCT 26, 2010
Gallup Opens Abu Dhabi Center
Fast Company
Polling giant Gallup has opened a new social research center in Abu Dhabi headed by a U.S. government appointee. But the center's affiliation with Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Court has ramifications for public diplomacy.
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OCT 26, 2010
Africa viewpoint: Nollywood and religion
BBC
n the BBC series of viewpoints from African journalists, Sola Odunfa considers what Nigeria's movie industry reveals about the country's spirituality.
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OCT 26, 2010
Likable India
The Wall Street Journal
In recent years, Indian corporate largesse has also benefited, among others, Yale, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. But these gifts also illustrate a broader phenomenon: India's growing soft power.
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