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.
WikiLeaks: Foreign Diplomacy Is Just Like Mean Girls
If WikiLeaks's latest data dump is the equivalent of distributing photocopies of America's Burn Book, would that make Hillary Clinton the Regina George of international relations?
Dancers Leap Over U.S.-Cuba Political Barriers
It’s the latest attempt at cultural diplomacy for two long-estranged neighbors with similar tastes in arts and entertainment. For two consecutive nights, Cubans packed Havana’s Karl Marx Theater to watch more than 50 American dancers leap, twirl and float across the stage.
WikiLeaks degenerates into gossip
So we have another WikiLeaks release, and this time it's secret diplomatic cables. So far the interesting material is on Arab states' and America's relationships with Iran. It seems all those fervid background-only reports of Arab states urging America to bomb Iran, which I mistrusted at the time, were true.
Weapons of mass information
The secret diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks have the potential to annoy governments around the world, and to inform (and even titillate) the rest of us. But are such leaks useful to the public, and do they bring real freedom of information any closer?
The 9 Most Shocking WikiLeaks Secrets
The whistleblower’s latest document dump exposes Saudi Arabia’s plot against Iran, a corrupt Afghan’s $52 million payday, Putin and Berlusconi’s “bromance,” and more. See nine of the most startling details.
Hillary Clinton Punctures The WikiLeaks Myth
Except, I have yet to see anything in the reporting on these documents that show's the U.S. government engaged in any behavior that would upset the great mass of the American public. In a statement to the press today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made this same point, rather directly.
Hillary Clinton attacks release of US embassy cables
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, today gave the administration's first public reaction to the leaking of thousands of confidential diplomatic documents, describing it as an attack not only on the US but the international community.
Central Europe and U.S. Diplomatic Strategy
It was more than a half-century ago when Hungarian freedom fighters dared to take to the streets and do battle with the Soviet Union. Expecting help – apparently promised but never delivered – from the United States, the Hungarians were quickly outmatched and paid a terrible price at the hands of the Soviet military.
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