BBG: Creating New CEO Requires Congress to Transfer ‘Certain Authorities’ from the BBG Board

WASHINGTON -- Last month the White House and the Broadcast Board of Governors proposed legislation as part of BBG’s FY2014 budget request to Congress that would create a new Chief Executive Officer who would supervise all U.S. Read More

Rhetoric of Power

According to a recently released report, India is among the top-10 most powerful countries in the world. This is a first-of-its-kind study of "national power" by leading strategic experts and scholars from the Foundation for National Security Research (FSNR) in New Delhi. Read More

Beijing Film Festival: Technically Dazzling, Ultimately Disappointing

BEIJING – The 3rd Beijing International Film Festival was a public diplomacy showcase this week for Chinese cinema at its best. Banners throughout the capital promoted the festival, the awards ceremony and, not least, the film-selling market in a country that now proudly proclaims itself as the world’s leader in movie theater revenues, ahead of the U.S. And yet, and yet… Read More

Reconceptualizing Diplomatic Norms in the Digital Age

APDS Blogger: Alex Laverty Jon Stewart, Bassem Youssef, & U.S. Embassy, Cairo: Reconceptualizing Diplomatic Norms in the Digital Age Read More

One Day’s News Shows Effects of New Media

As an indication of how online media are becoming ever more dominant in our world, consider two newspaper front pages (the ink-on-paper versions) on Wednesday, April 24. Read More

Economic Sanctions as Temper Tantrums

Harsh international sanctions against Iran are pointless and even counterproductive, members of the Iran Project argued this week in a new report. Read More

BBG Proposes Creating New CEO, Editor in Chief

WASHINGTON – All of U.S. international broadcasting could soon report to a new czar at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, under a plan contained in BBG’s budget request for FY 2014. Read More

This American Corner

While recently on a cultural diplomacy adventure across Central Asia on an American Music Abroad tour—the State Department’s flagship musical exchange program that American Voices administers—with the bluegrass band Della Mae, I had the opportunity to encounter the public diplomacy space that are the State Department’s American Corne Read More

For MPD’s Considering Public Service—Take a Second Look at the Presidential Management Fellowship

By: Cari E. Guittard, MPA & Renee Lee, MPD 2011 Background Read More

Is the export of the Bolivarian revolution on the verge of collapse?

There is most probably no left wing leader who had influenced public opinion inside and outside the Latin American part of the Western hemisphere to the same extent as the unconventional Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had over the last decade. Doubtlessly, his death three weeks ago ended one phase of Venezuela’s political development. Now facing the caudillo’s loss, the electorate has to determine the sustainability of principal public diplomacy paradigms of the Chavez government. Read More

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