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.
Cous-cous and cultural diplomacy
Andrea Wenzel takes us to meet an openly gay couple who decided to start an Algerian-American restaurant in Elkader after 9/11. This story charts the restauranteurs' adventures with cultural adaptation, American identity and small town politics.
US ‘hip hop diplomacy ‘fails to heal rift with Pakistan’
While America's image through much of the Muslim world has been dominated by war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the music that sprang from its inner city black populations in the 1980s is popular everywhere from the West Bank to Kabul.
Claude Smadja: Nobody’s moment… not India’s either
. One can still point at the US’ undisputed military superiority, its technological lead in some crucial areas, and one still hears about “US soft power”. However, the American moment belongs more to the eighties and the nineties than to the present era.
World Brand Congress to kick start on 24 November
This new design leadership -- tangible and intangible, thinking and making -- aligned with consumer values and business goals is transformative. It is the soft power of 21st century brand strategy.
Why SOPA endangers America’s Internet leadership
America's position of influence over the Internet economy is a valuable form of "soft power." If the US government uses this power judiciously, it can ensure that the Internet evolves in ways that serve US interests.
Times are grim yet the two Eds still can’t land a blow
But modern capitalism needs better public diplomacy than was provided by Dr Heather McGregor of the executive search firm Taylor Bennett, who said on Radio 4's Today programme yesterday: "If they all want to work in workers' co-operatives, everyone can move to Cuba." Really?
Making Real the Obama Iran Victories That Never Were: Vali Nasr
At the same time, the administration is not entirely convincing internationally when it maintains that Iran is misbehaving despite containment efforts. The U.S. allegations of official Iranian involvement in the Washington assassination plot met with considerable skepticism abroad. U.S. public diplomacy has done very little to remove those doubts.
Americans Abroad
The AUC, for instance, can no longer presume that the region’s political winds will leave it untouched... As one of the citadels of American soft power in Egypt, the AUC is unlikely to impress many of the protestors who have again taken to the streets as one of the country’s more useful institutions.
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