Shanghai Expo: Not Just a Site for China’s Image-Construction
To characterize the Shanghai Expo as mainly China’s showcasing of its soft power misses an important point. Read More
Finding Support For the Confucius Institutes
APDS Blogger: Chen Chen Read More
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Art: The Florentine Codex
APDS Blogger: Regina Guzmán Read More
Japan’s Cultural Diplomacy
Hidden Power
This week I’m obsessed with the notion of Hidden Power. Am reading Kati Marton’s most excellent book on the subject, which focuses on Presidential marriages that shaped our nation’s history. Read More
Global Financial Reform—the Silver Lining in the Goldman Sachs Cloud?
One thing we know: the financial, and potentially political, turmoil stemming from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent civil fraud action against Goldman Sachs will be sizeable, not just for its implications on the world’s most influential financial institution – but for the political grease it supplies to Read More
BATTLES TO BRIDGES: U.S. Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy after 9/11
Despite Poland’s grief, there is much to celebrate
APDS Blogger: Krysta Close Read More
Getting it Right Down Under?
In my recent book touring travels down under, I was struck repeatedly by the sense in which New Zealand and Australia seem for a North American at once remote yet accessible, exotic yet familiar. Read More
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