Erratum in article in the July issue of the Foreign Service Journal focusing...
My minor contribution to the Foreign Service Journal's July issue focusing on “Ethics for the Professional Diplomat” contains an erratum: that my father's career in the Foreign Service was "with the...
View ArticleIG report: State Department spent $630,000 to increase Facebook ‘likes’
IG report: State Department spent $630,000 to increase Facebook ‘likes’By Josh Hicks, Washington Post Updated: July 3, 2013JB comment: In all honesty, I don't quite understand what this article is...
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"Martin Wolf, the famed economics columnist for the Financial Times ... offered a deeper cultural contrast worth pondering. 'The British are definitively post-superpower in their attitudes,' he said....
View ArticleThe official twitterers of yesteryear: Advice from Four Minute Men Bulletin...
Four Minute Men: Volunteer Speeches During World War I - http://historymatters.gmu.eduDuring World War I, the United States fought a war of ideas with unprecedented ingenuity and organization....
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What if Snowden wants to attend the U.S. Embassy Moscow Fourth of July...
Foreign Service Exam question: Tech-whiz Edward Snowden, who for years served the USG (directly and indirectly) and now is stranded in Russia due to unfortunate circumstances, sends a handwritten...
View ArticleA Fourth of July speculation
As we Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, the day of our 237-year independence, I wonder if, today, this nation of some 315 million people would ever be capable of creating the kind of Constitution...
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July 3-5 Public Diplomacy Review
ABBREVIATED EDITION"Happy birthday, America!"; Via on NS Facebook(ATTEMPTED) HUMORWhat if Snowden wants to attend the U.S. Embassy Moscow Fourth of July celebration with ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman? -...
View ArticleEthics in diplomacy and ethics in foreign policy
From Edward Marks, “Ethics for the Professional Diplomat,” Foreign Service Journal (July-August 2013)Diplomacy Does Not Equal Foreign PolicyIt is important to differentiate ethics in diplomacy from...
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July 6-9 Public Diplomacy Review
Abbreviated PDPBR edition due to an increased summer teaching schedule for its compiler"I really think I can protect myself from the Swiss."--Lucile Atcherson, the first woman U.S. Foreign Service...
View Article[State] Department Notice: Changes to the Department's Security Clearance...
Office of Origin:LAnnouncement Number:2013_07_034Date of Announcement:July 8, 2013[State] Department Notice: Changes to the Department's Security Clearance Review ProcessEffective July 8, 2013, the...
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July 10-11 Public Diplomacy Review
Abbreviated edition"There were some wonderful foreign-service officers among the 1,300 people at the embassy, but they never left the compound, so they never met any Afghans. You can't do a one-year...
View ArticlePersuasion: deceiving by a beautiful show (Kant)
"After further considerations inspired by Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Dracula and Les Liaisons dangereuses, Bender closes with a final chapter, "Rhetoricality: On the modernist return of rhetoric"...
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"Mr. Eagleton has a lively mind, and his best sentences have a curmudgeonly salt crust. But he too often pushes his observations into sub-Dave Barry, over-the-falls-in-a-barrel comic overkill. Here he...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon -- Pakistan
"Of prime importance is the External Publicity (EP) Wing [of Pakistan's Ministry of Information], which carries out the function of public diplomacy. Public diplomacy is regarded as the framework of...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon -- India
The Indian Foreign Service: Worthy of an Emerging Power? - Sudha Ramachandran, thediplomat.comIndia’s global ambitions have grown remarkably over the past decade. However, questions are being raised...
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July 12-14 Public Diplomacy Review
"I worked for 10 years as president of National Public Radio in the United States, which is a private, independent, nonprofit company. RFE/RL is exactly the same thing."--U.S. government-funded Radio...
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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: "[O]ur democracy a 'fake.'"
Does the below, by a USG WWI propagandist, sound familiar to dedicated USG contemporary public diplomacy officials? It suggests that we Americans are "better" than our very own press says we are."The...
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Norman Rockwell and the Four Freedoms
NORMAN ROCKWELL AND THE FOUR FREEDOMSWhen bold words from FDR stirred a beloved American artist to action, the result was a set of paintings that forever captured our country’s spirit.By Bruce Heydt,...
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Force-Feeding: Where Our Tax Dollars Go
"Prominent senators, the American Medical Assn., human rights activists and a federal judge agree: The force-feeding of more than 40 hunger strikers at the prison at Guantanamo Bay is a disgrace....
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A New Job for Edward Snowden? The latest fashion in cybersecurity ...
"Berkeley’s cybersecurity budget, already in the millions of dollars, has doubled since last year . ... Mr. Mellon, at Wisconsin, said his university was spending more than $1 million to upgrade...
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