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.
Medvedev Learned His PR Skills From Chavez
President Dmitry Medvedev's first state-of-the-nation address raised a lot eyebrows abroad both by its content and tone. If the objective was to make people shake their heads in bewilderment, it succeeded beyond expectations...In a few months, Medvedev's Kremlin will encounter a tightly knit and efficient Obama administration. Medvedev needs much better advice to hold his ground with Obama in public diplomacy.
Reforming U.S. International Broadcasting for a New Era
By broad consensus of its members, the Public Diplomacy Council strongly recommends to the new Administration and Congress an urgent reform of America’s publicly funded international broadcasting.
Basic Principles on Improving U.S. Public Diplomacy
Twelve premises have gained broad consensus among the members of The Public Diplomacy Council as pillars for initiatives to strengthen U.S. public diplomacy. View them at the link above or under "Our Work," Occasional Papers.
Stars and Stripes
Those are some of the same places where many Africans have been leery of the United States and its heightened strategic interest in the continent, exemplified by its new military command, the U.S. Africa Command. In Africa, apprehension abounds about what America seeks to accomplish with AFRICOM. That it’s all about oil and military domination are among the suspicions...Could the good will from Obama’s election rub off on the military? And will a new administration mean new missions for AFRICOM in hot spots, such as Darfur?
Commentary: Letter to Obama on the Muslim world
President-elect Obama's unenviable task will be to undo the catastrophic policies of George W. Bush and his fellow neoconservative ideologues, facing the specter of al Qaeda's sinister terrorism while undertaking public diplomacy efforts addressing anti-Americanism around the world. note: This is one in a series of letters to the new president that will appear on CNN.com.
UN tackles pillars of intolerance
A high-level, two-day conference on the "culture of peace" is being held this week at United Nations (UN) headquarters this week.
Public Diplomacy is Changing the Odds
Rather than seeking another definition to encapsulate (or exclude) certain actors, methodologies, or bureaucracies, I’ve been seeking to think about what PD is it at its core. To me it is attempting to influence behaviour to change the odds of certain outcomes occurring.
Brazil becomes antipoverty showcase
The question of poverty is at the forefront of Latin American governments today. The poor are visible again, and Brazil is playing a leading role in this," says Patrus Ananias, Brazil's minister of social development, who traveled to Namibia last month to help the African Union review its social policy framework..."Many countries are looking to Brazil as an example of how to implement these programs. They are looking at how Brazil has done this at such a massive scale.
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