PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE NEWS

JUN 23, 2008
Toehold in Tehran?
The Washington Post
A smart idea to shake up U.S. policy and reach out to the Iranian people is being debated in Washington, but the debate isn't taking place within or between the presidential campaigns. It's going on inside the Bush administration. Senior officials at the State Department and beyond are mulling a proposal to open an interest section in Tehran, similar to the one the United States has operated in Havana since 1977.  Read more...

JUN 23, 2008
The price of hunger
The Los Angeles Times
What would it really cost to end global hunger?...In this series of editorials, we have argued that it is in the U.S. national interest both to address the burgeoning hunger crisis and, by improving the impact and visibility of its aid efforts, restore America's tarnished global image as the humanitarian superpower.  Read more...

JUN 23, 2008
Enlargement could be the first victim of Irish ‘no’
Today's Zaman
The Irish are expected to come back on Oct. 15 with a set of ideas to overcome the stalemate caused by their rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum held last week. The enlargement policy, one of the most successful tools of the EU's soft power, seems to be the first victim of the Irish "no" in the short run.  Read more...

JUN 23, 2008
Consumerism, globalization and American emptiness
International Relations and Security Network
If sovereign power is in decline, and anarchy on the rise, the soft power of the West - its branding and commercial influence - flourishes. Washington is losing the propaganda war to fundamentalist adversaries, but American films and television programs continue to win the media war.  Read more...

JUN 23, 2008
A chance for Europe to face the New Truth
International Herald Tribune
Welcome to the European Union's how-to era: how to save it, how to fix it, how to make its peoples love it - or, failing that, like it enough to care...What Europe could do, since it describes itself as the master of soft power, is stop trying to pile new, hard architecture on its soft mass. That means forgetting about becoming a mammoth lumbering with the cast iron paraphernalia of an all-purpose state.  Read more...

JUN 23, 2008
Understanding a Changing Taliban Front
The Washington Post
The situation in Afghanistan has several variables and unstable elements that yearn for reassessment...To avoid self-defeat in projecting military power, NATO must now serve up plans for the post-conflict era and blend in measured elements of soft power.  Read more...

JUN 23, 2008
NATO Week kicks off in Armenia
PanArmenian Network
NATO Week includes various events aiming to raise public awareness of the Armenia-NATO cooperation. "The Alliance’s high-ranking officials, including NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy Jean François Bureau are expected to visit our republic and hold a number of meetings,” Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Gegham Gharibjanian said.  Read more...

JUN 23, 2008
Anti-Americanism Is Mostly Hype
The Wall Street Journal
So America is unloved in Istanbul and Cairo and Karachi: It is an annual ritual, the June release of the Pew global attitudes survey and the laments over the erosion of America's standing in foreign lands...American liberalism is heavily invested in this narrative of U.S. isolation.  Read more...

JUN 23, 2008
State to host Japanese cultural exchange
Lexington Herald Leader
Judy Agee has lived in and visited Japan. But come October, it will seem like Japan is visiting her. She will be among the people in 11 Kentucky cities who will host 150 to 200 people from Japan as part of a large-scale cultural exchange program.  Read more...

JUN 22, 2008
U.S.-Funded Arab TV’s Credibility Crisis
CBS
America has been struggling with its image in the Middle East for decades but, after Iraq, Arab opinion plummeted. The Bush administration felt it had to act fast to explain America to the Arab world. So it began spending about $100 million a year on a U.S. government news channel in Arabic. It's called "Al Hurra," meaning "The Free One."
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JUN 22, 2008
Global interfaith dialogue set for July 16 in Madrid
Arab News
The Muslim World League (MWL) will organize a global interfaith dialogue in Madrid on July 16, it was announced here yesterday...The call to have Muslims and non-Muslims work together to solve problems afflicting the world came with a recommendation to set up a center for dialogue to be named King Abdullah International Center for Cultural Relations and the establishment of King Abdullah Prize for Cultural Dialogue.  Read more...

JUN 22, 2008
Muslims and the West need to be more sensitive
The National
In the past few months, political and cultural relations between the West and the Muslim world have been strained by two major developments: the republishing of the offensive Danish cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad, and the production of a Dutch film portraying Islam in a particularly negative way.
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