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.
They’re All Supporting Actors Here
Mr. Modi - better known as Kal Pennto fans of the television medical drama "House" - now toils in obscurity inside the warrenlike Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The bureaucrat formerly known as Mr. Penn is now the associate director of the Office of Public Engagement. It’s been a long time that Washingtonians take umbrage at this kind of celebrity diplomacy.
A Forgotten Kitchen Debate and American Public Diplomacy
If there is one theme at today's impressive conference at George Washington University's “Face-off to Facebook: From the Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen debate to Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century”, it is that US public diplomacy is, above all, about human beings connecting with one another rather than a government "pushing a message" on a “target audience.”
China Increases Its Economic and Political Footprint in Latin America
While the Chinese surge past the US [as Brazil's #1 trading partner] has been mainly caused by the economic crisis, and with the US likely to regain the pole position in trade with Brazil after the crisis ends, it highlights an underlying trend in Latin America. China is steadily increasing its presence and influence on the continent.
Interview: Representative Wexler On Engagement, Democracy, And Soft Power
U.S. Representative Robert Wexler (Democrat-Florida), the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Europe, held a hearing in Congress that looked at the role of “soft power” in the world – specifically, the role that international broadcasters like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America play in countries where the media is neither independent or free.
Return Of A Prodigal US Pleases Asia
East Asian nations will broadly welcome US moves to reengage with the region, with the world's most powerful country offering a counterweight to China's growing clout, analysts and diplomats said.
Liberal Myth-Making
The peaceniks and flower children around Pierre Trudeau calculated that if they could convince the rest of us that Canada was without a warrior tradition, they could decimate our military and go around to international conferences boasting about how their commitment to peace made them morally superior to the Americans. They also talked themselves into believing that if we had no war-making capacity -- that if we were a "soft power" -- the belligerents in the world's worst conflicts would trust Canada as the "honest broker" for their settlements.
Strong National Brand Can Help Weather Crisis
Mike de Vries, managing director of "Germany - Land of Ideas" nation-branding initiative, says that the issue of country-branding may be one of the problems. "Products made in a country can be representative of that nation to people in other countries, but the name of Korea seems not to be exposed continuously and repeatedly with the products made in Korea,"
Politics, Strife Sully National Image
Euh Yoon-dae, the national branding chief, dislikes "Dynamic Korea" as an official national slogan. When it symbolizes a country like Korea, it gives an image of violence instead of vibrancy, he says. His view proved true on Wednesday. President Lee Myung-bak discussed with top officials, experts and business leaders how to improve Korea's international perception.
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