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.
John Kerry’s Brand of Boston Diplomacy Pays Off
The exchange, related by a senior State Department official with direct knowledge of the Oct. 18 meeting, marked a turning point in the Obama administration’s efforts to get the world’s two biggest polluters to commit to lowering the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change.
Tremors on the Fault Line: Reading the 2014 Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index
This week the world of public diplomacy got a set of readings of similar significance. They mean trouble for the USA. The seismograph in the story is the Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index.
LGBT Rights Advocacy: the Quintessential U.S. Public Diplomacy Tool
In the past four decades, since the disastrous events of the Stonewall Inn in 1969, the United States has undergone rigorous legal transformations to eliminate various discriminatory laws against its LBGT community.
From Schmatta District to Paris Runways, Jewish Designers are Dominating the Fashion Industry
Ralph Lauren. Donna Karan. Marc Jacobs. Alber Elbaz. Diane von Furstenberg. Arnold Scaasi. Sonia Rykiel. Michael Kors. Calvin Klein. Levi Strauss. Is it mere coincidence that so many Jews have earned international acclaim in the fashion business?
Gary Hart and Northern Irish Diplomacy: Public vs. Private
Gary Hart has become the latest in a line of U.S. Senators and diplomats to wend their way to Northern Ireland to serve in the role of adviser, negotiator, and conscience-in-chief to the political process in Stormont.
U.S. ‘Soft Power’ Hits Another Hard Reality in the Middle East
The nation now most prone to such diplomatic pirouettes is the United States, still the world’s greatest power. Its strength has ever been defined, in important part, as idealism, “soft” power: belief in pluralism in politics, in free speech and a free press. These institutions are held to self-evidently good for a society: and the United States, with the European allies, has long preferred and rewarded those states which promise to follow that path.
Germany Named Best Country in the World
Germany has beaten the US to be named the best country in the world, according to a survey that rates nations on how they are perceived by outsiders.
Israeli Chef Yotam Ottolenghi Gives London ‘Plenty More’ to Talk About
This isn’t fusion cooking so much as look-what-happens-when-we-all-get-along cooking. Skipping across continents, he takes the food of his native land as well as its less-friendly neighbors, leaps to southeast Asia, and returns to host an informal brunch or an impromptu dinner party.
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