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If there has been one theme of the Obama administration and public diplomacy since March, it is that although the President won over overseas audiences (at least for now) through his high-profile foreign visits and tactful speeches in the countries to which he traveled, the public diplomacy apparatus at the State Department is broken and is in need of serious fixing. Anti-Americanism may no longer be as fashionable as it was during the Bush years, but – according to the media and government officials – America's public diplomacy, supposedly in charge of improving the US image, leaves much to be desired.
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Brown, J. What's happened to anti-Americanism, and to the State Department? The Obama administration and public diplomacy: March to mid-June 2009. Place Brand Public Dipl 5, 247–252 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/pb.2009.9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/pb.2009.9