PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE NEWS

SEP 1, 2008
EU Soft Power Best Agent To Solve Conflict
Irish Times
The political and economic interdependence between the EU and Russia is so great that there is no alternative to constructive engagement and better diplomacy...Threats of sanctions which could not realistically be implemented would have been counterproductive. The EU has wisely not gone down this road. Its message, which is stronger than beginning an exchange of sanctions, is to offer Georgia a programme of humanitarian and financial assistance.  Read more...

SEP 1, 2008
Caribbean Profile Can Be Boosted Through Cultural Diplomacy
Caribbean Net News
An ongoing programme of cultural diplomacy can be beneficial to the Caribbean once it is implemented strategically. Such a programme should draw on the unique culture of the Caribbean which was displayed at the 10th staging of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) in Guyana.   Read more...

AUG 31, 2008
Chávez Threatens to Expel American Ambassador
The New York TImes
Fuming over assertions by American officials that cocaine smuggling through Venezuela has surged in recent years, President Hugo Chávez threatened the American ambassador with expulsion on Sunday, opening a new phase of tension between Venezuela and the United States.  Read more...

AUG 29, 2008
Kremlin Fights Back in PR Battle Over Georgia
Reuters
Russia easily won its brief war with Georgia, but despite a media blitz to project its side of the story, it concedes it still has a way to go to win the propaganda battle. Facing an international outcry, the Kremlin finally weighed into the war of spin, granting a flurry of interviews with President Dmitry Medvedev to foreign media about Moscow's gamble in the Caucasus.  Read more...

AUG 29, 2008
Albert Kahn and the ‘Archives of the Planet’
Cultural Diplomacy News
Between 1908 and 1930 the millionaire banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn used his vast fortune to compile what he referred to as ‘The Archives of the Planet’. Utilizing cutting edge ‘autochrome’ technology Kahn spared no expense in sending photographers to every corner of Earth in order to record the customs, beliefs and day-to-day lives of peoples – indeed entire countries – still very much regarded as ‘foreign’, ‘alien’ or ‘strange’ by the peoples of Europe. Khan is an excellent ambassador for Cultural Diplomacy...Quite simply these pictures ‘promote understanding’, howsoever defined.   Read more...

AUG 29, 2008
Romanian Ambassadors’ Annual Meeting To Focus On Economic Diplomacy
Financiarul
Unlike the previous years, when foreign ministers of other countries would be invited to deliver speeches to the meeting, this year the meeting has a working character and it will be carried out in workshops that will tackle such issues as the response of diplomacy to the current global economic challenges; energy diplomacy; promoting Romanian products on foreign markets; positioning Romania in the world's investment flows; the Lisbon Strategy; the part of public diplomacy and cultural diplomacy in the management of worldwide challenges and the conduct of political dialogue.  Read more...

AUG 28, 2008
China’s Image
The Heritage Foundation
The Beijing Olympics are now part of history. The question is how they will be viewed. Olympic history has had some extraordinary highs and lows, and of course Chinese leaders would like the just concluded extravaganza to take its place among the soaring successes. The category in which China competed, that of major leading international nations and the gold medal prize, was "the respect of the world." When it comes to spin control, image crafting, and all of the arts of the PR business, the Chinese won hands down.  Read more...

AUG 28, 2008
Ideas Abound for Improving U.S. Public Diplomacy Effort
America.gov
Debate continues on how America can best present its image abroad, with many proposals put forth to improve both the U.S. public diplomacy effort and to define the goals of that effort. The bipartisan U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy said in its June 2008 report Getting the People Part Right that the United States can “significantly enhance the quality and effectiveness of our nation’s outreach to foreign publics by recruiting for the public diplomacy career track in a more focused way.”  Read more...

AUG 27, 2008
Lessons of a Postmodern War
The Globe and Mail
In the Georgia crisis, those nation-states and international bodies that defended the global rules, that condemned Russia for breaking them, and that used the soft power of public diplomacy to restore their effectiveness were all forces that could ultimately call on hard power and/or serious national self-interest to support their words. Practitioners of hard power were able to use soft power; advocates of soft power ended up wielding no power.  Read more...

AUG 27, 2008
In Denver, Making Room for Moscow
Newsweek
America's relationship with Russia has come to dominate the foreign-policy debate at the Democratic National Convention...It is through the prism of a flagging, halfhearted effort in Afghanistan that many Democrats now view the homeland security and public diplomacy issues stemming from the 9/11 attacks.  Read more...

AUG 27, 2008
The Biden Factor in US-Iran Relations
Asia Times Online
Senator Barack Obama's choice of Senator Joseph Biden as his running mate for the Democratic ticket for the US presidency is a good omen for troubled US-Iran relations and will likely translate into positive developments on that front in the event Obama moves into the White House.   Read more...

AUG 27, 2008
First Muslim Congressman Excels in Foreign Outreach
Fox News
Ellison's dovish foreign policy is just about the opposite of the Bush administration's, yet he has teamed up with the State Department on public diplomacy to tout what he calls "core" American values of democracy and human rights. He has done events with U.S. embassies overseas and speaks to visiting groups in Washington arranged by the State Department, such as a delegation of French Muslims last month.  Read more...

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