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In the halls of the United Nation's New York bureau, officials have been considering a proposal to unify the UN's many organizations promoting women’s equality and rights into a single "gender entity."

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today proposed a major United Nations role as "a cure-all" for resolving tensions in Central Asia over the use of water, energy and other natural resources where exploitation by one country can affect the development of another.

On May 1, the modern-day equivalent, the World Expo, will open in Shanghai, China. Given China's rising international profile, the Shanghai Expo seems to be less about inventions and more about geopolitics.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon heads to Central Asia this week for the first time. The five-nation trip will focus on regional cooperation, disarmament, tackling climate change and promoting development, the United Nations announced Monday.

This project evaluated the effectiveness and value of Celebrity Diplomacy. Particular emphasis was placed on the United Nations. The project convened a workshop on the theme of Celebrity Diplomacy in April 2009.
 

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Consider, then, the "public diplomacy" impact of a serious public offer to Iran, made through international media and from the podium (so often usurped by the clownish Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) of the United Nations.

This is the first of what I intend as a series of occasional postings about public diplomacy and soft power in and towards Asia, focusing principally on the People's Republic of China. This site is understandably concerned with western approaches to, and practices of, public diplomacy, especially as they relate to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the challenges of international terrorism. My aim is to draw attention to non-western perspectives that acknowledge, but are not dominated by, events in the Middle East.

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