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.
The limits of soft cultural power
What UNESCO should be protecting, he says, is not stones but human values; cities must develop in ways that cater to present needs but also respect and integrate the past.
Kenya: Press Releases: Al Jazeera Selects A24 Media
Al Jazeera Network and A24 Media have revealed a new partnership that widens worldwide access to Al Jazeera’s award winning Africa-focused programming. A24 Media offers broadcasters across the world a diverse portfolio of programming covering Africa via its online delivery site www.a24media.com.
The decline of America and Poland’s special relationship
Last year, the Transatlantic Trends poll conducted by the German Marshall Fund and other think tanks found that 44 percent of Poles backed Bush, one of the highest levels of support he had in Europe, while the controversial Texan had the favor of only 11 percent of the French. This year, only 55 percent of Poles support Obama, the lowest level in Europe, while 88 percent of the French like Obama.
Preparing to Lose the Information War?
It seems whole forests have fallen over the same period on the need to enhance civilian agencies – be it the State Department or a new USIA-like entity – to provide a valid alternative to the Defense Department who most, even the detractors, agreed was filling a void left by civilians who abrogated their responsibility for one reason or another.
The Iron Curtain: twenty years gone
[The Cold War] was also the golden age of cultural diplomacy. The Cold War was a battle for hearts and minds and culture became a potent weapon. Film, radio and popular music were all important elements in the Western message about how good life was in the "free" West.
Iraqi student program is music to St. Louis’ ears
Through the Visiting Student Program, Kurdish Iraqi students come to study music and English at SLU each year. "It's a term called cultural diplomacy-people are people, everybody loves music, everybody makes music, and bringing cultures together through music and the arts is a natural step," she said. "The arts have nothing to do with political beliefs or government policies-it all comes down to the basic level of humanity."
Culture warriors practise soft diplomacy
An ambitious Australian arts program aims to grab the attention of the Obama Administration. The largest contemporary indigenous art exhibition ever to leave Australian shores will open in Washington DC this week, the first event in a cultural initiative that aims to boost Australia's profile in Washington at a critical time.
New Tweets, Old Needs
Iranian citizen-journalists have tweet-transformed the American image of their country (online youth have supplanted mad mullahs); globalized the protest movement by drawing a vast and previously apathetic Iranian diaspora into the struggle (albeit with still debilitating divisions); and provided an effective organizing tool in the absence of strong leadership (Mir Hussein Moussavi, thy name is meekness).
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