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.
New Media Tools and Public Diplomacy
Elliott Schrage, Facebook's vice president of global communications, discusses in this interview how governments should think about new media. Schrage places an emphasis on authenticity, saying the medium provides a unique platform for users to reject what they deem to be spin.
Dangerous Work in Moscow
As Putin choked off more and more freedoms, the Bush administration was first oblivious, then impotent. Because of Guantanamo and associated abuses, Lokshina says, "no one asked what the United States could do. The high ground was lost, and so was influence." Obama's new course at home, she says, has changed that equation.
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I'm in China to manage Sweden's web-based public diplomacy effort aimed at the Chinese. The catalyst is Shanghai Expo 2010, a world fair whose sheer ambition will blow all previous efforts out of the water — as is the custom here in China.
GE Makes Large Donation To US Shanghai Expo Efforts
General Electric Co. has given U.S. efforts to raise the $60 million needed to ensure a national pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo a massive boost, organizers said Monday. Fundraising problems have meant the U.S. is one of only three countries - along with Andorra and Colombia - that have diplomatic relations with China but haven't confirmed participation at next year's World's Fair.
Obama’s Diplomatic Alternative
Putting his predecessor George W. Bush's overwhelmingly"big stick" hardcore military approach into review -- not necessarily to rest, Obama is seen tilting towards soft-power diplomacy to play the primary role in this increasingly complicated while delicate world. More in the U.S. have come to recognize that"militarization" of U.S. foreign policy in the Bush administration had led it nowhere, as it was bogged down in two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, alienated by many of its traditional allies.
Winning the Information War in Afghanistan and Pakistan
With overwhelming firepower, Western armies rarely lose in combat to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. But in the communications battle, the militants appear to hold the edge.
Can the Cairo Location Be Overcome?
I am unequivocally enthusiastic about the Obama administration's plans to deliver a major address to the Muslim world ... I'm less thrilled by the choice of Cairo to deliver the speech. But hopefully Obama and his team can turn the challenges posed by the location to their advantage.
Armenian workers may boost Turkey’s hand in foreign policy
Keeping Armenian workers well fed and well paid here in Turkey will surely strengthen Turkey’s role at a time when more Armenian migrant laborers are returning from abroad in big numbers. The Ministry of Economy in Yerevan estimates the country receives more than $2.5 billion a year in remittances, which make up about a fifth of Armenia's gross domestic product (GDP).
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