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Experts offer advice on best ways to help Japan
LDS Church leaders are working with local leaders to determine the needs of the Japanese and how to work best with the local governments, according to a statement released Thursday. Leaders are directing those wishing to donate to do so through the church's Humanitarian Aid Fund.
U.S. actions in Libya may speak louder than words
As international forces launched attacks against Libya on Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton struck a tone highly unusual in the annals of American military interventions: humility.
The welcome return of French diplomacy
The success of yesterday’s Paris summit in securing international backing for the military strikes on Libya marks quite a comeback for French diplomacy. Just two months ago, France was offering another Arab autocrat, in Tunisia, help controlling rebellion.
To Know Us is to Hate Us?
When we think of the American culture we primarily think of the culture of the United States or the ethnic melting pot that the US is. The term American has, first and foremost, a nationalist connotation not the geographic one, and refers to the people who live in the US.
President Obama pivots back to U.S.-Latin relations
A day after giving the go-ahead for joint military strikes against Libya, President Barack Obama and his staff tried to refocus his first-ever trip to South America with a brief tour of the city and a speech hailing Brazil’s economic might and vibrant democracy.
“Hydro-diplomacy” needed to avert Arab water wars
The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts, experts said Sunday.
Europe, learn to live with the dithering
President Barack Obama was not in Washington when the first missiles struck targets in Libya. As the US went to war at the weekend – the third on his watch – he left for Brazil to discuss trade.
Diplomacy in Public Services
Public diplomacy was believed to be a job solely for the state department but it takes more than Foreign Service Officers to do the job well. It is important for every citizen, resident, official, supporter, etc. of a nation to do their best to fairly represent the nation they associate with to a foreign audience.
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