PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE NEWS

JUN 10, 2008
Voice of America Launches Environmental Webcast
Voice of America
The Voice of America's (VOA) Worldwide English Division launches its environmental webcast, Going Green, today. Going Green is an informal and fun look at green technology and what people around the world are doing to promote a greener life.  Read more...

JUN 9, 2008
Obama Would Win Big—in Europe
The Wall Street Journal
While the race between Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain remains close among U.S. voters, Europeans have given their hearts to the likely Democratic nominee.  Read more...

JUN 9, 2008
From the Daily: Fulbright fauxpas
The Michigan Daily
The Fulbright Program may tout its international scholarship program as a "mainstay of America's public-diplomacy efforts," but the recent revocation of the program's aid from seven students living on the Gaza strip has featured less diplomacy and more disaster.  Read more...

JUN 9, 2008
Not too late to repair SA’s battered image
PoliticsWeb
As South Africa turns to the grim task of dealing with the aftermath of the xenophobic attacks, our leaders must be seized with how to repair the nation's battered image in the international community. President Mbeki's apology to our African brothers and sisters when the Nigerian President visited this week was a modest beginning...We practice smorgasbord diplomacy in which we pick and choose when we want to be moral and "do the right thing". It also time for Africa leaders, like Mr Robert Mugabe, to stop justifying their authoritarian misrule within a discourse of legitimate redress for colonial injustice and imperialism.  Read more...

JUN 9, 2008
Food diplomacy works
The Los Angeles Times
The United States cannot lead if it is hated...The tragic global hunger crisis, which has swelled the ranks of the world's most miserable, provides the U.S. with a golden opportunity to do good while rebuilding its shattered global leadership credentials. We should seize the chance to win friends and confound our enemies by showing the world that the United States is the sole superpower when it comes to generosity.  Read more...

JUN 9, 2008
McCain vs. Obama
New Europe
A good use of the US Government’s “public diplomacy” mechanisms by either candidate can do a lot to improve global misperceptions about American intentions. The problem is that the Bush Administration has had to use these tools to showcase US policy on lower priority issues where the US is relatively open to dialogue...since it cannot point to meaningful consultations with allies on the strategic policies that Washington is still developing unilaterally.  Read more...

JUN 9, 2008
Downsized U.S. Goals and Presence in Iraq
AScribe Newswire
In a new report from The Century Foundation, former National Intelligence Council vice-chair Ellen Laipson argues that the United States needs to move quickly to reset its Iraq policy goals...This public diplomacy challenge could affect the political atmosphere in the United States and in Iraq...Over time, public attitudes may rally to new policy approaches that show promise of achieving better outcomes.  Read more...

JUN 9, 2008
Malaysia to bring up fuel prices at OIC meeting
The Star Online
Malaysia will discuss the issue of escalating fuel prices at the next Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting in Kampala in Uganda from June 18-20...Earlier, Dr Rais said the conference would discuss issues such as improving Muslim World-West engagement, understanding Islam in a globalized world, enhancing Muslim World-West public diplomacy and preventing emerging Muslim world-West crises.  Read more...

JUN 9, 2008
El Mundo al Dia Launched Today
Voice of America
El Mundo al Dia (The World Today) brings the Voice of America's (VOA) television audiences in Venezuela, Colombia and other Andean nations a comprehensive new daily 30-minute Spanish-language news program. The show features news updates, exclusive interviews, and reports from Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the United States.  Read more...

JUN 9, 2008
Shanghai among eight Asian commercial centres: MasterCard
AFP
The index, developed by a panel of social scientists, rates cities on seven key dimensions including legal and political framework, economic stability and livability, MasterCard said. "The Centers of Commerce Index is a roadmap for corporations to identify and evaluate investment and market opportunities in a world where cities, instead of countries, have become the primary economic players," said Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, economic adviser for MasterCard Worldwide, Asia/Pacific.   Read more...

JUN 9, 2008
There is only one man who can save America
The Herald
Obama's historic purpose is to reconnect to America's other tradition - of exercising "soft" power rather than "hard" power. Soft power was the way the US defeated the Soviet Union, not through military conquest but through cultural osmosis. It was as much American rock music and Levi's consumerism that undermined the Warsaw Pact and brought down the communist bureaucracies.  Read more...

JUN 9, 2008
The Unique Reality of Condi Rice
The Nation
In case you missed it--or, if you didn't miss it, in case you didn't have the energy to read the entire 9,000 words--Condoleezza Rice's interminable lead article in the current issue of Foreign Affairs is a doozy...In the piece, Rice concocts something she calls "a uniquely American realism." In it, it's America's job to change the world, and in its own image.  Read more...

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