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SEP 1, 2010
Freedom to connect: The digitalization of the US State Department
Manila Bulletin
Up until last year, according to a report in the New York Times, the US State Department was still doing things the traditional way: through diplomatic cables, official communiqués and government to government transactions involving diplomats travelling to other countries to negotiate agreements.
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SEP 1, 2010
Mideast peace talks’ hidden threat
Politico (blog)
Some 46 percent of Israelis believe that President Barack Obama is “pro-Palestinian,” according to a Smith Research poll this summer. Since then, that figure most likely has ticked higher. After all, in July, the president upgraded the Palestinian delegation’s diplomatic status in Washington...
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AUG 31, 2010
‘The Worst Possible Intervention Into Digital Matters by the U.S.’
The Atlantic
Google can be seen as an American political tool, argues cyber diplomacy analyst Evgeny Morozov in a new editorial pegged to the announcement of an Iranian national search engine. Furthermore, he indicts many Silicon Valley companies for collaborating with the State Department to turn business matters into political questions.
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AUG 31, 2010
Bad public diplomacy: a legacy of waste in Iraq
MountainRunner.us
A U.S. “Legacy of Waste” in Iraq, by Liz Sly, Los Angeles Times, documents the culmination of seven years of failed public diplomacy...
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AUG 31, 2010
U.S. Combat Mission Ends in Iraq, Obama Says
defense.gov
One of the lessons of Iraq, he [President Obama] said, is that “American influence around the world is not a function of military force alone.” “We must use all the elements of our power, including our diplomacy, our economic strength and the power of America’s example, to secure our interests and stand by our allies,” he said.
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AUG 31, 2010
Lessons From Haiti: How Food Aid Can Harm
The Atlantic
Under U.S. law, nearly all of our food aid is produced in the United States—predominantly by large agribusinesses like Archer Daniel Midland—and nearly all is delivered to stricken countries by American shippers. The system is shamefully rife with inefficiencies and misplaced priorities.
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 U.S. Public Diplomacy’s Neglected Mandate: Advancing Mutual Understanding
This study will attempt to understand why the U.S. public diplomacy's mandate of "mutual understanding" has ignored the need to increase Americans' understanding of foreign nations and peoples. It will seek to find what must be done to advance mutual understanding between U.S. and foreign publics in the future.
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 Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy
The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy provides a comprehensive overview of public diplomacy and national image and perception management, from the efforts to foster pro-West sentiment during the Cold War to the post-9/11 campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of the Muslim world.
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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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 How to Promote Economic Development: Your Sister City as a Tool
Sister Cities International
February 27, 2010
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 Benjamin Goldsmith & Yusaku Horiuchi: Global Public Opinion, US Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy
CPD Conversations in Public Diplomacy
12:00 PM, January 28th, 2010
Venue: USC; SOS B40
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 Salman Ahmad: Rock and Roll Refugee Relief
CPD Conversations in Public Diplomacy
4:30pm-6:00pm, Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Venue: USC; ASC 207
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