“Greek-style diplomacy” – “one-to-many” diplomacy – is making a comeback ...
Reflections on Diplomacy 227: -“Greek-style diplomacy” – an emergent stylePosted on March 30, 2013 by Aldo MatteucciProfessor Raymond Cohen, a leading historian of diplomacy, says “The practice of...
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America's Dialogue with the World: Rhetorical Qualifications to be a U.S....
"[S]he uttered the verbal tic 'you know' 138 times in one New York Times interview."--Washington Post journalist Jason Horowitz, reporting on Caroline Kennedy, about to be chosen as U.S. Ambassador to...
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April 1-2 Public Diplomacy Review
"Bin Laden is the quintessential public diplomat."--Scholars A. Evans and D. Stevens; see also; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYU.S. reduces radio news broadcasts to Iran, Afghanistan, Belarus, China and...
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Essay-Grading Software Offers Professors a BreakBy JOHN MARKOFF, New York TimesImagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor a few weeks...
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April 3-5 Public Diplomacy Review
"Are universities mostly boot camps for adulthood, where young people learn how to ... fornicate meaningfully ... ?"--New York Times pundit David BrooksEVENTGastrodiplomacy: a panel discussion and...
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April 6 Public Diplomacy Review
“The problem is that you Americans think every problem has a solution.”--One member of Congress quoting former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt as saying; image fromVIDEOSStreet Art of the Arab World...
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What the State Department's official statement didn't tell you: Tragically...
At this sad time for American diplomacy ("A suicide car bomb in southern Afghanistan killed three American soldiers and two American civilians, including a State Department Foreign Service officer"),...
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April 7 Public Diplomacy Review
“A large part of a diplomatic mission’s work does not involve or require elaborate secrecy. Diplomacy, after all, is not a conspiracy. The best diplomacy is the one that involves the fewest, not the...
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Big Brother with Good Intent
“It’s Big Brother, sort of, but with a good intent.” --Tracy Hurley, the dean of the school of business, regarding technology from a Silicon Valley start-up, CourseSmart, that allows teachers to track...
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"Streetcraft" - a better, updated term for "public diplomacy"?
"Streetcraft" - a better, updated term for "public diplomacy"?Term cited in Arturo Sarukhan, "Diplomacy and the Digital Age," Huffington PostImage from
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Launch of the construction of the new American Center in Kyiv, Ukraine
I came across this bit of important information in "Under Secretary Tara Sonenshine to Travel to Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia," stating that "in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 11-13, the Under Secretary will...
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Face-to-Face or Facebook-to-Facebook? Perhaps Face-to-Face is better ...
Look me in the eye: Clifford Nass ’81 *86By Katherine Federici GreenwoodPublished in the April 3, 2013, issue of Princeton Alumni WeeklyWhile walking through the Stanford dorm where he is a resident...
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April 8-9 Public Diplomacy Review
"As amazing and inspiring as Madeleine Albright has been as a diplomat, Miramax is unlikely to spend $100 million to chronicle her life."--Michael Duffin, a graduate student concluding a Master's...
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April 10-11 Public Diplomacy Review
"There is the silence of mystery evoking awe, the silence of attention or respect, the silence of desolation, the silence of what is forgotten, the silence of what is concealed: silence good, bad, and...
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On Thomas L. Fraudman
The Madness of NYT’s Tom Friedman - Robert Parry, consortiumnews.comApril 10, 2013Exclusive: Looking back at the Iraq War and other disastrous U.S. foreign policy choices, you might wonder about the...
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April 12
"On Friday night, May 27 [2011], a photograph of a man’s torso wearing gray boxer briefs and an obvious erection appeared on Weiner’s official Twitter account."--Jonathan Van Meter, "Anthony Weiner and...
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Michael Howard review of book by Emile Simpson, "War from the gound up:...
Narratives of warMichael HowardEmile SimpsonWAR FROM THE GROUND UPTwenty-first-century combat as politics285pp. Hurst. £25.US: Columbia University Press. $32.50.Published: 3 April 2013, The Times...
View ArticleA scathing review of Morozov's new book, ‘To Save Everything, Click Here’
Book review: ‘To Save Everything, Click Here’ by Evgeny MorozovBy Tim Wu, Published: April 12, Washington PostTim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School, a fellow at the New America Foundation and...
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April 13 Public Diplomacy Review
"The adversary is no longer homogeneous, one’s own people may be puzzled and divided."--Michael Howard, "Narratives of war," The Times Literary SupplementVIDEOSNorth Korea threatens to strike Colorado...
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Public diplomacy images: Who won the Cold War?
IMAGES: WHO WON THE COLD WAR?--Walt Disney statue image from T.D. Allman, "How the CIA Helped Disney Conquer Florida," Daily Beast; via JM on FacebookSOVIETICA [Lenin Bust]--Via OR on Facebook, with...
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