strategic communications

Putin perfectly understood the power of the media that helped propel his famously unpopular predecessor Boris Yeltsin into power in 1996. So the first thing he did after assuming the presidency in 2000 was to force all the major TV channels to submit to his will. Oligarch owners were either co-opted, jailed or exiled, and by 2006 most major Russian media were either directly or indirectly under Putin’s administration’s control.

Selfies in Russia

The societal pros and cons of a life spent online.

Ben Rhodes stands next to President Barack Obama

On Obama's strategic communications adviser, Ben Rhodes.

Spring must-reads in public diplomacy scholarship, including American counter-messaging against ISIS and the contributions of PR scholars to public diplomacy.

This new report explores which world leaders are on Instagram and how they use this social media tool for digital diplomacy. 

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