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Reflecting on the Lviv Security Forum, CPD Faculty Fellow Philip Seib discusses the critical importance of media literacy in combating hybrid warfare that relies on disinformation.
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An analysis of common misconceptions about digital technologies as tools for diplomacy.
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The USSR responded to negative press with denial and censorship. Now, Russia is relying on the same tactics.
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With Al-Jazeera America's end, what is the state of English-language news networks?
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The Office of American Spaces under the U.S. Department of State has recently released its annual report. With over 700 spaces across 169 countries, American Spaces "serve as the primary places of ongoing people-to-people connections between the United States and foreign audiences that are essential to advancing U.S. foreign policy objectives." Hosted in embassies, schools, libraries, and other partner institutions, often outside capital cities, these locales aim to further a core tenet of democracy: access to information.
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The U.S. State Department's new move to combat ISIS in the information wars.