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.
Left and right, pundits applaud Obama Nobel Peace Prize speech
If nothing else, the American punditocracy largely agreed on one aspect of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech: that it was eloquent. In offering a tutorial on just war theory, laid out in clear prose and compellingly delivered, Mr. Obama and his speechwriters showed once again that they know how to knock one out of the park.
US Dept of State - Judith A. McHale - Remarks to Vilnius University
The brave Lithuanians who joined hands in 1989 didn’t need YouTube and Twitter to come together – but imagine what they could have done with these tools! In fact, I wonder how long foreign occupation of your country would have lasted had Facebook and ONE.LT existed in 1945. And just as these new technologies have changed the way Europeans and Americans debate domestic policies and conduct domestic politics, so too have they changed how we carry out international relations.
Testing Obama’s Foreign Policy
t is a mistake to discount the role that transformative leaders can play in changing the context of difficult issues. Power involves setting agendas and creating others' preferences as well as pushing and shoving.That is why Obama's administration speaks of ``smart power" that successfully combines hard and soft power resources in different contexts. But soft power can create an enabling rather than a disabling environment for policy.
Swedish expert sees non-state actors as great security challenge
Although small in size, these non-state actors consume enormous amount of time, energy and money of relevant countries to address the threat and instability they pose, which has happened again and again across many parts of the world such as in Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, South of Lebanon and parts of South America.
What Canada Needs from NATO
Canadian opinion is split on our continuing efforts to bring security to Afghanistan. Some call for Canada to return to a soft-power foreign policy that puts multilateral diplomacy, reconstruction, and development at the fore. This vision hardly mentions our deep stake in NATO for future security interests.
Obama Nobel Peace Prize: What Arabs think
When Obama took office last January, Arab expectations were high that the advent of a new American presidency would signal a warmer era for US-Arab relations after the polarizing policies of the Bush administration. But Washington's actions have trampled on the goodwill created by Obama's words.
Chile’s nation brand – mind the gap
Think about Chile and if you’re just like most people, you’ll think about a narrow strip of land in South America where there was the infamous Pinochet dictatorship and little else. Probably it’s a poor Latin American country with lots of barefoot indigenous children on the streets, like in Ecuador or Guatemala.
Economic turmoil may force countries to re-brand
The current economic crisis is affecting countries in an obvious, well-documented and flagrant manner, but is also impacting their reputation, their “nation brands”, in a less obvious manner. One example is Dubai. The Emirate is facing the toughest economic challenge in its history.
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