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AUG 22, 2010
Proposed Restrictions on the News Media Cause Alarm in South Africa
The New York Times
After spending billions of dollars to successfully host the World Cup — and reveling in how the monthlong global coverage burnished the country’s reputation as a democratic beacon — the government is finding that it has created a major public relations problem.
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AUG 19, 2010
Chinese ambassador hails cultural exchange with Tanzania
People's Daily Online
China and Tanzania enjoys deep and traditional friendship with richer and richer cultural exchanges between the two countries, a senior Chinese diplomat said in Dar Es Salaam,on Thursday. Liu Xinsheng, Chinese ambassador to Tanzania, made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the exhibition of "Henan in the Eyes of World Photographers", stressing the role of cultural exchange in enhancing the bilateral relations.
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AUG 15, 2010
U.S. Public Diplomacy Toward Africa Advanced by Obama’s Gesture
CPD Blog
Sometimes effective public diplomacy can be conducted through a simple and unambiguous gesture. Such was the case when President Barack Obama recently commemorated the 50th anniversaries of 17 African nations’ independence at the White House.
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AUG 13, 2010
Ditching Principles for Diplomacy
Spiegel Online (Commentary)
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle is openly gay and likes his partner to accompany him on foreign trips. However, he now says that he will travel alone to countries where homosexuality is an offence. He wants to promote tolerance, but not "imprudently."
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AUG 13, 2010
India’s Pan-African network gets top prize for innovation
The Economic Times
In a growing global recognition of India's people-focused diplomacy in Africa, its signature Pan-African e-network project, that seeks to empower the resource-rich continent through tele-medicine and tele-education, has won a top international prize for innovation.
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AUG 12, 2010
African researchers connect with local community
Canada.com
The Canada-Africa Research and Learning Alliance hosted a group of international researchers this past weekend in Tofino as part of a cultural exchange focused on eco-tourism and community sustainability.
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 AFRICOM: The American Military and Public Diplomacy in Africa
As part of its investigation into hard power and public diplomacy the USC Center on Public Diplomacy co-hosted a conference on AFRICOM. The proceedings of this conference were published as was the policy brief presented in Washington D.C. in March 2008. The Center continues to maintain an active Media Monitor that follows international media coverage of the U.S. military command.
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 AFRICOM: The American Military and Public Diplomacy in Africa
Officials of the Defense and State departments cite a commitment to public diplomacy as an essential element of AFRICOM, the U.S. military command for Africa created in 2007. Questions remain, however, about whether a military command can and should engage in public diplomacy. This was the central issue at the conference about AFRICOM held at the University of Southern California in February 2008.
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![]() U.S. Public Diplomacy Toward Africa Advanced by Obama’s Gesture
AUG 15, 2010
Philip Seib
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![]() AFRICOM’s Impressive Public Diplomacy Product
AUG 7, 2010
Philip Seib
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Media Monitor: AFRICOM
America's Public Diplomacy and Military Strategy in Africa
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 How to Promote Economic Development: Your Sister City as a Tool
Sister Cities International
February 27, 2010
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 Virginia Haufler: Governing Corporations in Zones of Conflict -Issues, Actors & Institutions
CPD Conversations in Public Diplomacy
12:00 PM, Thursday, November 19, 2009
Venue: USC; SOS B40
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 Daniel Volman: AFRICOM, the Obama Administration and U.S. Military Activities in Africa
CPD Conversations in Public Diplomacy
12:00 PM, Thursday, October 22, 2009
Venue: USC; SOS B40
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