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Weekend catch-up: Lowy Poll 2015, Papua, Australian Soft-Power, al-Nusra
The 2015 Lowy Institute Poll launched this week, revealing some interesting results of Australian attitudes on foreign policy. Check out the Polls' accompanying interactive feature here, where you can look at the data over the last 11 years. Alex Oliver, the Lowy Institute's polling director wrote on this year's major findings:
Michelle Obama Seeks Solutions for Child Obesity at Milan Expo
US First Lady Michelle Obama on Thursday visited the World Expo in Milan, which is themed this year on food, on the lookout for ideas to help fight childhood obesity. Along with daughters Sasha and Malia, and her mother Marian Robinson, healthy food campaigner Obama spent the entire morning at the exhibition. Accompanied by Agnese Renzi—the wife of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi—she met with children and students at the Italian and American pavilions. "The truth is we still have so much work to do when we are seeing rising obesity rates, not just in the United States but all over the w
Uniting the World Through Basketball
At first glance, the 42 teenage boys going through drills and playing supervised pick-up games at Our Lady of the Lake University’s Mabee Gym appear to be cogs in the never-ending prep basketball machine. Clinics, fall leagues, AAU summer tournaments and camps such as this one fill the void between high school seasons. While many of the campers are from San Antonio and the Hill Country, others are from Romania, Macedonia and Kosovo.
Getting the People Part Right II: The Human Resources Dimension of U.S. Public Diplomacy in 2015
On June 17, 2015, Meridian International Center collaborated with the U.S. Department of State to present "Getting the People Part Right II: The Human Resources Dimension of U.S. Public Diplomacy in 2015". The report examines how the U.S. Department of State can improve public diplomacy’s effectiveness by rethinking how we are recruiting and selecting public diplomats, improving their training and advancement, and strengthening their influence on policymaking.
ACU Launches Policy Center for Statesmanship and Diplomacy
The ACU Foundation is launching the Policy Center for Statesmanship and Diplomacy today as a way to spread the message of the Reagan Doctrine and further educate grassroots conservatives on foreign policy.
Ireland and Public Diplomacy: "Still Here: Here Still"
lIn a world fraught with local, national and international fissures, animosities, and violent conflict, the Republic of Ireland stands far above the fray as a stellar example of how a country's verve for the written and spoken word can undergird the conduct of its foreign policy. Simply said, Dublin's adroit use of public diplomacy is a lesson for those who are wedded to an overweening dependency on military, political, and economic prowess as the sole instruments to promote and protect national interests.
The U.S. Asylum System’s Role in Protecting Global LGBT Rights
Nearly a decade before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that U.S. laws which criminalize “homosexual conduct” are unconstitutional in the 2003 case Lawrence v. Texas, a gay Cuban man won protection in the United States from the persecution he faced in his native land because of his sexual orientation. It was the first time that persecution based on sexual orientation was established as valid grounds for asylum in the United States.
U.S., Chinese Universities to Launch Technology, Design Program
Funded by a $40 million investment from Microsoft Corp., the University of Washington and China’s elite Tsinghua University will launch a new program in Seattle in the fall of 2016 to focus on technology and design innovation—a cooperative move between nations for whom technology has been a sore point in recent years. The “Global Innovation Exchange” will represent the first physical presence by a Chinese research university on U.S.
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