Confucius to Their Enemies: China’s Investment in Public Diplomacy
Anyone who doubts the value of money spent on competition in the world of ideas – a key aspect of public diplomacy – needs to… Read More
Anyone who doubts the value of money spent on competition in the world of ideas – a key aspect of public diplomacy – needs to… Read More
If you are a human rights activist or suffer under the yoke of an oppressive regime, do not expect the United States to be rushing… Read More
A top priority of the Obama presidency has been to restore the image of the United States in the world; in image allegedly left in… Read More
Of all the isolated places on earth, North Korea is a strong candidate for the most dismal. Yet it is the case in the information… Read More
Congress has become increasingly restive about the Obama Administration’s lack of leadership on supporting opposition forces that seek to advance freedom and human rights in… Read More
If ever there was a case for regime change, today’s Iran is it. Today on the anniversary of the revolution that brought the country’s authoritarian,… Read More
President Obama’s decision to skip the annual U.S.-EU summit in Europe, May 24-25, has not endeared him to some Europeans; many of whom once again… Read More
Increasing spending on the State Department and international affairs while freezing discretionary domestic spending is probably not likely to endear President Obama further to constituencies… Read More
Internet outreach is the hottest new item in the U.S. government’s array of public diplomacy tools. While international broadcasting is in disarray, the focus has… Read More
While television and new technologies like Internet and cell phones are the focus of strategy at the Broadcasting Board of Governors that oversees the U.S…. Read More
The National Security Council is priding itself on a successful first year for President Barack Obama in terms of strategic communications. In a blog posting… Read More
With all the money that has been shelled out through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Act, it turns out that the State… Read More
The Nobel Committee’s choice of President Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize was baffling, to Norwegians and Americans alike. Even President Obama himself was amazed…. Read More
A glaring omission in President Obama’s speech Tuesday was any attempt to address the propaganda war that is currently being waged with increasing sophistication and… Read More
The challenge thrown down this week by the U.S. State Department to the world’s home video makers is an ambitious one — apparently nothing less… Read More
The Obama Administration ironically recognized the legitimacy of Iran’s thuggish Islamist regime only a few months before the Iranian people renounced its legitimacy in a… Read More
International expectations went through the roof one year ago today with the election of Barack Obama. The United Stated had elected the man whom many… Read More
In the citation for President Obama’s award of the Nobel peace prize, the Norwegian Nobel Academy mentioned that his style of leadership would bring in… Read More
Like much of the rest of the world, President Obama this morning declared himself “surprised” that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, for which… Read More
It was a sad week for American support for oppressed nations. The White House announced that it will not be meeting for now with the… Read More
President Obama and Mrs. Obama have done it again — demonstrating, that is, that personal appeal only goes only so far when it comes to… Read More
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which culmitated a series of events in the summer and fall of 1989, allows us… Read More
Of all the days President Obama could have chosen to announce that the United States will abandon its plans for a missile defense site in… Read More
When Russia threatens to outdo the United States on public diplomacy in a place like Poland, something is seriously amiss in the way the State… Read More
International graduate students are cooling on the United States a new study released this week by the The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) shows. Offers… Read More
The State Department is establishing a new unit for countering militant propaganda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in an effort to win the war of ideas… Read More
President Obama provided some much-anticipated guidance on his policy towards Iran today in the fourth news conference of his presidency. But even without teleprompters, Mr…. Read More
Not even D-Day, June 6th, went by without an international apology from President Obama, despite it being one of the most heroic days in American… Read More