This Week in Public Diplomacy Jan 21 2013
Inaugural Public Diplomacy
P.J. Crowley / Take Five Blog
Inaugurals are important opportunities for public diplomacy and his message will appeal to international audiences, but it was clearly tempered by four years of real-world experience.
Board running Voice of America, Radio Free Europe is condemned in hard-hitting probe
James Warren / New York Daily News
The White House-appointed board overseeing government-funded broadcasts to 100 countries is a dysfunctional mess beset by “acute internal dissension” revolving around a longtime friend of former President George W. Bush, according to a new inspector general’s report obtained by the Daily News.
Jazz, the sound of soft power in the desert
Bill Law / BBC
Qatar has spent billions bringing the world to the tiny gulf kingdom.
Why I use e-Diplomacy: A Practitioner’s Perspective
Victor Guzun / New Eastern Europe
The use of online instruments is gradually becoming an indispensable part of modern diplomacy.
US ‘Public Diplomacy’ Funded by Private US Companies
Barbara Slavin / Al-Monitor
Strapped for cash, the US State Department is increasingly reaching out to private companies to help fund programs that bring Middle Eastern visitors to the US, seek to counter negative impressions of the US and promote economic development in the region.
Roundtable analyzes China’s Public Diplomacy Efforts
Zhang Fang / China.org.cn
Although China’s public diplomacy efforts have run into obstacles over the years, great progress has still been made, international students and Chinese experts said at a recent roundtable in Beijing.
When Soft Power Fails
John Feffer / The Huffington Post
The oldest Chinatown in the world is not in New York or San Francisco or even Yokohama. It is in Manila, a fact that comes up often when Beijing talks about its longstanding connection to the islands that lie about 600 miles to the southeast.
Would Kerry advance e-diplomacy?
Frank Konkel / The Business of Federal Technology
There is broad consensus that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has the foreign policy experience to serve as Secretary of State. But what about the State Department’s open-technology and digital diplomacy efforts?
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A Domestic Victory for Public Diplomacy
Matthew Wallin / American Security Project
Included in the passage of the FY13 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), was an interesting addendum updating the law that governs America’s public diplomacy efforts.
