Americas
APDS Blogger: Paul Rockower
As recording artists gather today to re-create ‘We Are the World,’ to benefit Haiti, one cannot help but be moved by America’s continued commitment to sending relief and embracing the world in a time of crisis. Americans from every walk of life, and every level of the economic spectrum, are finding ways to contribute to the relief efforts in Haiti.
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host Benjamin E. Goldsmith, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Yusaku Horiuchi, Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Economics and Government at Australian National University on January 28, 2010, to discuss their research on U.S.
The Obama Administration is back to practicing public diplomacy — with the American public. Stung by the loss in last week’s election in Massachusetts, the White House is bringing back public outreach specialist David Plouffe, the mild-mannered star of the Obama election campaign. Plouffe had stepped back from politics after the election to write a book on the campaign. Now it appears the White House needs Plouffe’s grassroots/Internet organizing skills more than ever.
The global response to the catastrophe in Haiti is reassuring in the sense that it shows governments and people do care about a nation in which they have no strategic interest. If there is still some altruism alive in the world, it can be seen in this relief effort.