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.
Did Olympics improve human rights in China?
"The IOC, when it gave the Olympics to China, thought they could change China," said Luo Qing, who researches China's national image at Communication University of China in Beijing. "I think the Chinese government wanted only to change the world's image of China." Luo is compiling a lengthy report this month for the IOC at its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, detailing media coverage of the games in 13 countries.
Rewriting the Narrative: An Integrated Strategy for Counterradicalization
On March 10, 2009, The Washington Institute's Presidential Task Force on Confronting the Ideology of Radical Extremism released its final report at a special Policy Forum at the Institute. The release also included a discussion led by three task force members: Tim Roemer, president of the Center for National Policy; Lorne Craner, president of the International Republican Institute; and Dr. Robert Satloff, executive director of The Washington Institute. The following is a rapporteur's summary of their remarks.
“A New Way Forward” in Doha: Listen to the Artists
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s speech at the opening of the U.S-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar (February, 2009) was interrupted with applause as the audience heard something unusual – at least in the last eight years: a firm criticism of U.S. government policy by a respected opinion leader from America.
The Reawakening of Reconstruction
The argument that the United States military should develop nations has considerable “public diplomacy” appeal: it is a vision speech writers find hard to resist. It backfires, however, when the United States and its allies cannot deliver on the promises implied in nation-building speeches.
U.S. Public Diplomacy, an Exercise in Futility
Changing others’ opinions of the United States requires not President Barack Obama's gestures and fine words, but a transformation of America’s approach to the world.
Brand Nigeria - Do We Really Need a Re-Branding?
Nation branding has become a popular phrase ever since Simon Anholt coined the phrase in 1996. In a seminal article, 'Nation-Brands of the Twenty-First Century' (1998), Anholt noted that most of the really successful international brands have come from countries that are successful brands in their own rights such that a substantial transfer of brand imagery and brand equity seems to occur naturally between the two.
The World’s Networks are Providing New Forms of Power
The Internet age requires new styles of leadership in which attractive soft power must supplement the traditional hard power of command...Barack Obama understands this networked dimension of leadership
Legendary Regional and International Artists, Collectors, Furators and Filmmakers Unite
More than sixty of the art world’s leading personalities will gather in Doha and in Dubai for the 3rd edition of the Global Art Forum, alongside Art Dubai 2009...this year there is a strong focus on Middle East culture and its interaction with the international art community.
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