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.
Green With Envy
The problem now is that Europe cannot back up its soft power with hard economic capabilities. Developing countries are asking for the transfer of green technology, but there is not much new technology in the pipeline for making money.
Global Responsibility: Towards a More Cognizant Foreign Policy
The United States is part of a world whose activities, conflicts, and woes affect our country, has remained under-addressed. It is a realization of our interconnectedness with the rest of the world, and that it would not be reasonable to seek to extricate ourselves from it, or claim that we can.
Multiculturalism
Consisting of twenty eight states and seven union territories India is the world's largest economy and the fourth largest in purchasing power. Members of Parliament represent four of the major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism and speak twenty eight official languages.
Davutoğlu sees Turkey among top 10 world players by 2023
Turkey's top foreign policy czar pointed out that the country no longer considers itself to be confined only to regional politics but rather aimed to be a major player among the 10 top-most effective countries in the world.
US Must Win Battle Of Public Opinion In Afghanistan
You may have a tough job, but you probably wouldn’t want to trade places with Judith McHale...Her main task is getting the American message out to the Muslim world. So far, doing that has proved to be even harder than communicating behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Back then, Americans knew there were people thirsting for accurate news and information.
50 years of fostering relations
Cultivating leaders to manage that development and educating Americans about the Asia-Pacific region — and Asians and Pacific islanders about the United States — has been the primary mission of the East-West Center since it was established by Congress in 1960 with strong backing from then-U.S. Senate Majority Leader (and later President) Lyndon B. Johnson.
Limbo World
On my most recent visit to the Republic of Abkhazia, a country that does not exist, I interviewed the deputy foreign minister, Maxim Gundjia, about the foreign trade his country doesn't have with the real countries that surround it on the Black Sea.
Russia-India ties sour in Central Asia
Unsound strategy, mutual mistrust and opportunism are combining to frustrate the efforts of Moscow and India to blunt China's soft-power push into Russia's "near beyond" - the oil and gas-rich former Soviet republics that line the path of the ancient Silk Road from the Caspian Sea to China's doorstep at Xinjiang province.
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