A curated selection of public diplomacy-relevant news from a global cross-section of English-language media outlets, including independent, corporate-owned, and state-sponsored sources. The stories featured don't necessarily represent CPD's views nor have they been verified by CPD.
For Shanghai Fair, a Famous Fund-Raiser Delivers
With multimillion-dollar pledges from PepsiCo, General Electric, Chevron and other American corporations, the United States is on track to open a sleek, 60,000-square-foot pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010, which runs from May through October.
Muslim world to strengthen ties with Russia
The Political Consultations Committee between the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Russian Federation held its 2nd session in Moscow in the framework of formal discussions co-chaired by Ambassador Abdullah Abdul Rahman Alim, Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, for the OIC side, and Alexander Sultanov, Deputy Foreign Minster, for the Russian side.
Diplomatic sector does well for national growth
The diplomatic sector in 2009 joined hands with the nation maintaining peace and stability, maximising national aggregated strength, and utilising all opportunities advancing the country towards development and international integration, said a senior government official.
American leadership in a “non-polar” world
Over the past decade, policy analysts and decision makers in this country have disagreed about American leadership in the world. Led by Joseph Nye, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, many believed the United States was "bound to lead" the international system as a consequence of its overwhelming material and ideological dominance and American power was unparalleled and would be enduring.
How about a little domestic ‘soft power?’
For the past eight years, the dominant strain of progressive thought railed against neoconservative foreign interventionism. It abhorred the use of coercive hard power - military might - to achieve ostensibly desirable goals such as the spread of democracy. Progressives found the promotion of American values through brute force arrogant and even cruel.
How Western anti-Muslim bigotry became respectable: The historic roots of a newly resilient ideology
As scholars who work on the centuries-old Islamic presence in Europe and the continent’s first post-Holocaust genocide against, not coincidently, the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we were deeply disturbed but not surprised that an ostensibly tolerant and pluralistic Western democracy like Switzerland would vote by a margin of 57 percent to ban the religious symbol of 400,000 of its Muslim residents because they felt “threatened” by the grand total of four minarets that exist there.
Hundreds in Sderot, Israel Protest Hamas Gaza Terror Rockets, Seek Peace for Children
Hundreds of Sderot and Israeli civilians took to the streets today to demand an end to Hamas terror attacks from Gaza. In a rally organized by the Sderot Media Center, protesters demanded an end to violence and the creation of dialogue and peace for both the children of Sderot and Gaza.
The battle for public opinion
To help, the Obama administration should establish a public-private communications partnership. It would probably look similar to the RAND Corporation, set up after World War II as a federally funded research and development center that would bring together experts from the War Department, the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and private industry.
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