The Role of Non-State Actors in Sports Diplomacy
CPD Photo Essay: Skateboarders from the United States and Brazil forge meaningful ties around a half-pipe in São Paulo.
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Life-Saving Exchanges: Tuberculosis and the Need for U.S.-Russian Cooperation
The urgent need to include the expertise of Russian professionals in international efforts to control the global TB epidemic must override U.S. and European reservations about partnering with colleagues based in the Russian Federation. Eight million lives depend on it.
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Shanghai 2010 World Expo at Street Level: The Local Dimensions of a Public Diplomacy Spectacle
Abu Dhabi’s New Approach to Cultural Diplomacy
Ambassador Rugh explains how Abu Dhabi's investment in education, medicine, art, and music constitutes a new kind of cultural diplomacy.
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Trafficking of Women on the Burma-China Border: Why the International Community Should Care About the Conflict in Kachin State
In recent weeks, warfare in Burma’s Kachin State has increased and is now making its way closer to the Burma-China border. While the international community has paid little attention to the Kachin conflict over the past few years, understanding its complexity is now more important than ever. Failing to do so could have dire implications on the lives of Kachin women, and on diplomatic relations in the region. Read More
Challenging the Pakistani Taliban Through Culture
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari throws down the gauntlet to the Taliban at the recent cultural festival in Sindh.
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Interview: Ambassador Munter at USC
High Stakes and Intensive Public Diplomacy: The Global STOP TB Partnership
In her essay on the different types of public diplomacy, American university professor R.S. Zaharna identified policy networking strategy and coalition building as third-tier relationship-building initiatives (Snow and Taylor, 2008). Read More
Culture Posts: Propaganda by Default in Ukraine
Strategically, the default to “propaganda” creates blind spots, its own reverse deception, and most importantly, a lost opportunity.
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Ukraine: Turning Boxing Champion Klitschko into a European Politician
While the Klitschko brothers are known as champions of heavyweight boxing, the older brother Vitali is transforming himself into a politician that represents the new Ukraine.
Formerly called “Doctor Ironfist,” Vitali is extending his heavyweight champion brand far beyond HBO sports audiences -- he has emerged as the international spokesperson for the pro-Western, pro-reform Ukraine. Read More
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