PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE NEWS

JUN 11, 2008
Sister Cities create connections and expand global communities
The Minnesota Daily
The Minneapolis Sister Cities program met with a group from the municipality of Cuernavaca, Mexico , late last week to discuss the terms of joining the program...The program has a long history in the United States. President Dwight D. Eisenhower started Sister Cities International in 1956 as a diplomacy initiative, according to the program's Web site.
Currently, Minneapolis has nine sister cities on five continents. These relationships vary with each program - from research to information exchange.   Read more...

JUN 11, 2008
We Get More Benefit from Long-Term Food Aid Programs
American Enterprise Institute
The main riddle of U.S. public diplomacy is why we derive so little political benefit from our humanitarian efforts abroad. Indeed, we sometimes feel disliked by our allies and clients almost as much as by our enemies. In Latin America or Africa, this is exasperating. In Muslim countries, however, the failure goes to the heart of our central national security challenge.  Read more...

JUN 11, 2008
Obama on the Nile
The New York Times
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Democrats' nomination of Obama as their candidate for president has done more to improve America's image abroad — an image dented by the Iraq war, President Bush's invocation of a post-9/11 "crusade," Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay and the xenophobic opposition to Dubai Ports World managing U.S. harbors — than the entire Bush public diplomacy effort for seven years.  Read more...

JUN 10, 2008
Ban Ki-Moon´s leadership effort boosts UN public diplomacy
American Chronicle
Since being appointed UN-SG on January 1, 2007, Ban has been quick to serve as a trouble shooter in various global trouble spots seeking support from the UN Security Council´s members whenever required.  Read more...

JUN 10, 2008
Berlin radicals don’t bother to protest Bush visit
International Herald Tribune
To the astonishment of local officials and media, not even a token demonstration was registered with the police for Bush's latest visit to Germany. "Bush is not even popular in the role of the enemy anymore," the daily Der Tagesspiegel wrote.  Read more...

JUN 10, 2008
New U.S. Public Diplomacy Head Cites “Arsenal of Persuasion”
News Blaze
Using the "arsenal of persuasion" - soft power, smart power and public diplomacy - is critical to beating terrorism, says James Glassman, the newly confirmed under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs...To do this, he said, would require a combination of enhanced educational exchanges, new technologies and, most important, advocating American values to counter the ideology of violent extremists.  Read more...

JUN 10, 2008
Zimbabwe Imposes Import Duty on Foreign Newspapers
Voice of America
Zimbabwe's state-run media says foreign newspapers will have to pay an import duty after concerns by the government that "hostile foreign newspapers are coming into Zimbabwe." The state-controlled newspaper The Herald says foreign publications will now be classified as luxury goods and will have to pay an import duty of at least 40 percent of the total cost per kilogram.   Read more...

JUN 10, 2008
Report: Fair presidential runoff in Zimbabwe is impossible
The Los Angeles Times
Persistent violence by government agents and supporters is making it impossible to hold a fair presidential runoff election later this month...A man beaten to death by members of Mugabe’s party was told he was being punished because he had let neighbors listen to his radio, tuned in to a Voice of America program aired in Zimbabwe, according to the rights watch report.  Read more...

JUN 10, 2008
Retired teacher is among Buffalo’s ambassadors to the world
The Buffalo News
People to People became her 'identity'...It’s exactly what President Dwight D. Eisenhower had in mind when he founded the organization in 1956 with the underlying belief that if ordinary citizens could communicate directly they would solve differences and find a way to live in peace.  Read more...

JUN 10, 2008
AFRICOM: AC, CNPP Slam Yar’Adua
Leadership Nigeria
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's reported endorsement of the offer to be part of the Africa Command (AFRICOM), a new military arrangement proposed by the United States government, will have negative effect on Nigeria's sovereignty, Action Congress (AC) said yesterday. The federal government had in October rejected the new command which calls for the establishment of US military bases in Africa.  Read more...

JUN 10, 2008
Stand-Up Comedy from Pakistan via Second Life
New World Notes
On May 31st, a Shiite in Pakistan performed stand-up comedy for a live audience in a post-apocalyptic landscape known as The Wasteland. There are no comedy clubs in Karachi, Pakistan, for one thing...It's also a chance to tweak negative stereotypes about Muslims and Pakistanis in front of an international audience, in a setting that defies them.  Read more...

JUN 10, 2008
Getting the Bulldozer Back on Track
The Heritage Foundation
President Lee Myung-bak confronts a deepening political crisis that requires a bold proactive strategy...His administration should proactively counter false allegations against U.S. beef safety and mischaracterizations of the KORUS FTA with a coordinated public diplomacy campaign.  Read more...

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