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.
A View from the Muslim World: Cairo After Obama
I witnessed this cultural phenomenon when I led a delegation of U.S. scholars and leaders to Egypt for an exercise in public diplomacy. We talked with local scholars, activists and community leaders of different intellectual and political currents on issues of democracy, faith and community, as well as discussing U.S.-Muslim relations. Visits like this illustrate how the United States is actively seeking to improve understanding and cooperation with the Muslim world.
European Universities Look Overseas for New Partnerships
The European Union, consisting of 27 nations, has said that it aims to make European higher education more attractive internationally. For the past decade Europe has been overhauling their higher-education systems in 46 countries to create greater consistency among degree programs and a more coherent degree-granting process.
Australia’s Public Diplomacy Crisis
As the US international student recruitment became bogged down in visa bureaucracy and post-9/11 paranoia, Australia surged ahead to take up the slack and recruited large numbers of students from Asia especially. Now this recruitment and Australia’s wider reputation are in jeopardy as a result of a series of brutal racist attacks on Indian students by youths. The attacks have not only opened questions over the safety of the nearly 100,000 Indian students studying in Australia, but they have also raised wider concerns about the quality of the education provided to Indian students.
“Let anybody go to Cuba,” Richardson says
“Full disclosure–I am for getting rid of the embargo,” Governor Bill Richardson told an audience in a talk about U.S. and Cuban relations at the University of New Mexico on Tuesday “I want some things in return…but I don’t think it’s worked. It’s hampered our two nations.”
Missing in Action: Obama’s Public Diplomacy
On September 14, 2009, during a panel discussion at Washington, DC's Newseum, Cull revealed his expectation that the Obama administration would already have its foreign policy strategy crafted ten months into the presidency was realistic. As it happens, he was wrong. It is fortunate timing for Seib, the editor, and the book's authors that the Obama administration’s foreign policy and consequent public diplomacy strategy are undeveloped.
What’s Going on in Pyongyang?
Kim's resurgence has predictably given new life to calls for renewing our engagement with Pyongyang. "As North Korea experts know, the country has long wanted to improve relations with Washington," wrote Han Park, a University of Georgia professor, at the end of last month in the Los Angeles Times.
Northern Ireland cartoon becoming an international success
Aimed at four to seven-year-olds, the cartoon introduces children to fun characters such as Rab the unlucky crab and Gannet the incontinent seabird. ... The cartoon is currently broadcast on [Irish public broadcaster] RTE and has just been translated into Danish to be shown on television in Denmark later this month.
Indian Cultural Centre to Come up in Bhutan
Bhutanese can now look forward to learning playing the sitar or the tabla and know more about Indian literature and theatre. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and the Bhutan government have agreed to open a centre here to"encourage more interest in the cultures of both countries".
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