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April 14 Public Diplomacy Review
Image from“She was smiling all the time.”--Attorney Sam Hopkins, referring to murdered Foreign Service Public Diplomacy officer Anne Smedinghoff, who, while a student at Johns Hopkins University in...
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A sample of the Current Affairs Readings, related to public diplomacy, for...
Propaganda and American Foreign Policy:A Historical OverviewLSHS 453-40 (Georgetown University MALS program)Instructor: Dr. John H. BrownCURRENT AFFAIRS READINGS NO. 13 (FOR CLASS 13 ON APRIL...
View Articlexxxx, get your shit together - Pertains to Public Diplomacy
NYU Stern Professor's Advice To Student: Get Your S--- TogetherMariana SimoesJB: While by no means a branding expert (frankly, as an ever-aspiring humanist, branding is a simplistic term I despise), I...
View ArticleInteresting historical tidbits on U.S. propaganda/public diplomacy
The Propaganda System That Has Helped Create a Permanent Overclass Is Over a Century in the Making by Andrew Gavin MarshallPosted on April 15, 2013 by Andrew Gavin MarshallWriter, Dandelion...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy and People 2 People Poetry
"Brazilian hackers defaced 18 Indian websites recently. In a tit-for-tat action, Indian hackers defaced 37 Brazilian websites (double of 18 plus 1). Indians also left a provocative message -'Bitchz!...
View ArticleAn important new article on Diplomacy 2.0 from a historical perspective by...
The Long Road to Public Diplomacy 2.0: The Internet in US Public Diplomacy - Nicholas J. Cull, onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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April 15-16 Public Diplomacy Review
"Everything I know about social media marketing I learned doing sex work."--Sex worker Kitty Stryker tells CNNMoney; via PVB; image from entryVIDEOSSen. Rubio: Beyonce’s trip to Cuba is ‘propaganda’ -...
View ArticleResistance to something
"Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance; numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a...
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Do we really need "public diplomacy" to fix America's image when the USA...
From The U.S. ranks 1st in plastic surgeons - rankingamerica.wordpress.com: According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, in 2011 there were 5,950 plastic surgeons working in the...
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April 17
"[T]he C.I.A. — which once sold golf shirts with Predator logos in its gift shop."--New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYTara Sonenshine on Public Diplomacy, Voice of...
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Review of Empire of Ideas: The Origins of Public Diplomacy and the...
From American Diplomacy (March 2012)Empire of IdeasReview by John H. Brown, Ph.DEmpire of Ideas: The Origins of Public Diplomacy and the Transformation of U. S. Foreign Policy by Justin Hart, Oxford...
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April 18-20 Public Diplomacy Review
“Audiences are like dogs — they can smell what’s underneath the material, and that’s something you can’t plan or fake." --Comedian Sarah Silverman; image fromBOOK REVIEWEmpire of Ideas: The Origins of...
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Chairman Jared Speaks ...
Remember the New York Times article by Jesse Lichtenstein (2010), featuring publicity-seeking not-so-young social media ersatz gurus Jared Cohen and Alec Ross who had a considerable impact on how the...
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April 21 Public Diplomacy Review
“After all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in masquerade.”--Lord Byron, cited in John Hargrave, Words Win Wars (1940), p. 37. Above image from; online quotation atPUBLIC DIPLOMACYOverseas Private...
View ArticleWhy is this? How has the United States become so saturated in slaughter?
From Todd May, "Is American Nonviolence Possible?" New York Times:Why is this? How has the United States become so saturated in slaughter?There are, of course, many reasons, but three stand out, one of...
View ArticleMarx the anti-Communist
From: John Gray, "The Real Karl Marx" [Review of Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber]," New York Review of BooksSperber’s subtly revisionist view extends to what have been commonly...
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April 22 Public Diplomacy Review
"Lamenting that 'our once blossoming commercial cities are no longer flourishing,' he [Karl Marx] declared that the spread of Communist ideas would 'defeat our intelligence, conquer our sentiments,' an...
View ArticleBBGWatcher report: Sonenshine to leave public diplomacy post at State
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View ArticleCommonplace books
From:Matthew Battles, "How Writers Interact With the World," New York TimesEarly-modern European authors had their commonplace books: journals they filled with excerpts from classical and modern works,...
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April 23 Public Diplomacy Review
"Congress has contracted with various movie theaters around the nation to host the House and Senate."--Rowan Scarborough, "Congress has new shelter in case of attack," The Washington Times, noting that...
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