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And now we have ... selfie diplomacy!
http://nypost.com/2014/03/28/uproar-over-dcs-jokey-selfie-support-for-ukraine/ Via JJ on FacebookRussia sends troops, Obama administration sends a selfieBy Carl Campanile and Post WiresMarch 28, 2014 |...
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The Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review: "It's junk," decrees Hotmail...
For persons interested in how hotmail "selects" what to consider "junk mail," allow me to note that the most recent edition of my harmless "Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review" (PDBR, sent to email...
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March 28-29
"They flow disjunctively: directed, shaped and sometimes inhibited by what we might call mediating structures of interlocution."--The "so-called global cultural flows," according American University...
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Walking in Vegas
(With obvious inspiration from):American patriot that I am, I never cease to wonder about Las Vegas. As art-lover real-estate "business magnate" Steve Wynn, a shaker and mover in Sin City, famously...
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Philippe-Jean Bueau-Varilla, a dapper stockholder in the French effort to build a Panama canal, suggested to [Theodore] Roosevelt and [Secretary of State] Hay that the province of Panama be separated...
View ArticleProfound ignorance
Our misjudgments of friend and for alike reflected our profound ignorance of the history, culture, and politics of the people in the area, and the personalities and habits of their leader. We might...
View ArticleTravel and the Secretary of State
In my view, the Secretary of State, should not, as a general rule, go abroad on a serious negotiation unless the odds are heavily in his favor....A Secretary of State who undertakes too many journeys...
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Quotations on Diplomacy and the Foreign Service - from J. Robert Moskin,...
From: J. Robert Moskin, American Statecraft: The Story of the U.S. Foreign Service (2013)p. 3: "The American system of separation of powers was not designed for the the conduct of foreign affairs. It...
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Panda Diplomacy
http://www.ecns.cn/2014/04-01/107553_3.shtmlBlack-and-white star power(3)2014-04-01 10:53China DailyWeb Editor: Gu Liping 0"China can position itself as a generous friend, who's willing to send some...
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March 30-April 7 Public Diplomacy Review
Abbreviated Edition"The PD community really is a welcoming and supportive bunch."--Academic James Pamment; image from“epiphenomenal” --How some academics define public DiplomacyQUOTATIONSQuotations on...
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Intervene if you don't know where!
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography--Ambrose Bierce“The situation in Crimea continues to develop. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters today that won’t recognize Crimea’s vote to...
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The emerging dark side of social networks
JB note: Aging Cybergurus Alec Ross and Jared Cohen -- Are you still twittering about the wonders of the new social media? See...
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April 8 Public Diplomacy Review
Abbreviated Edition"[D]oes this mean that the Department of State (DoS) has expanded its influence role beyond public diplomacy?"--Lawrence Dietz, referring to USAID’s Twitter for Cuba in his blog,...
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News that’s not news: CIA funded Dr. Zhivago
News that’s not news: CIA funded Dr. Zhivago - bookhaven.stanford.eduThe internet is all abuzz with the news that the CIA funded Boris Pasternak‘s classic Doctor Zhivago.Except that this is not news. I...
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American Exceptionalism at its best (or worst)?: "Don't Know Much about...
The Purduette Engineering Song sung to "Don't Know Much About Geography" [video] - Michael Zoltowski, youtube.com: [JB comment: American exceptionalism at its best (or worst)?]Image from section of...
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Critchlow on Crimea
James Critchlow* on Crimea(posted here with Mr. Critchlow's kind permission)After a hiatus of several years, I recently received my first resumed take of the Johnson Report, now issued in the name of...
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Vladimir Vladimirovich as a Native American Thinker ...
From the Voice of Russia:President Putin's plans for Russia are more in keeping with American Indian thought than anything the West has come up with. The Americans Indians believe we must regulate our...
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The final nail in the USSR coffin - thank you from NATO, Vladimir Vladimirovich!
Vladimir Putin, perhaps unknowingly, is putting the final nail in the coffin of the performer (artist is too strong a word) formerly known as the Soviet Union.1. By acquiring an economic basket case,...
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Notes for a Lecture: "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps American United"
http://www.policymic.com/articles/87359/national-geographic-concludes-what-americans-will-look-like-in-2050-and-it-s-beautiful?utm_source=policymicFB&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=socialNational...
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April 9 Public Diplomacy Review
“The Tourism Minister of Crimea announced that foreign tourists can visit the country this year without a visa. And just when you thought visiting Crimea couldn’t get any more enticing – no...
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