Nation Image
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Mark Dillen asks how the Charlottesville protests "will affect the way the world sees us — and the way we see ourselves."
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Olga Krasnyak looks at Nixon's presidency through the lens of space cooperation with the USSR.
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Olga Krasnyak looks at how the actions of diplomats can impact national image.
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Ilan Manor explores the relationship between a country's national image and the image of its leader.
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A study by USC Annenberg alumnus César Jiménez-Martínez about Chilean nation branding through the eyes of local practitioners.
Czech speed skater Martina Sablikova and the late conductor Jiri Belohlavek will be among the 15 personalities who will receive the Gratias Agit award for promoting the country's good name from Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek on Friday. Belohlavek, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic who died on May 31 at the age of 71 years, will be awarded in memoriam.