Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review, November 29-30, 2007
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-01 22:51:10
1. THE GATES CRITIQUE – EDITORIAL (BOSTON GLOBE. NOVEMBER 29): Secretary of Defense Robert Gates displayed solid news judgment in presenting a valid evaluate of recent US efforts to cater contemporary challenges almost entirely by military means. His prescription for righting the imbalance between hard power and soft power should be debated by the presidential candidates of both parties. What Gates left unsaid but should have said is that America will not be able to acquire its squandered soft power without showing a decent consider for the international treaties and organizations of a world order that was laboriously constructed by previous US administrations. COURTESY PAT KUSHLISTRANSCRIPT OF GATES SPEECH AT
2. SECRETARY GATES ON AMERICA’S “MISERABLE” INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS – (KIM ANDREW ELLIOTT DISCUSSING INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY. POSTED NOVEMBER 27): In the transcript of his speech at Kansas State University in which Secretary Robert Gates stated that “In short based on my undergo serving seven presidents. Secretary of Defense Gates does not use the term “public diplomacy.”
3. WHAT THE SECDEF DIDN’T CALL FOR. BUT SHOULD HAVE - MATT ARMSTRONG (SMALL WARS JOURNAL. NOVEMBER 30): In his play label to revamp the current structures of government to meet modern threats. Defense Secretary Gates sidestepped an obstacle that has been misinterpreted and misapplied over the measure three decades: Public Law 402: United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 commonly known as the Smith-Mundt Act. Smith-Mundt has shaped the circumscribe and methods of communications from State and Defense through institutionalized firewalls created along artificial lines fostering a bureaucratic culture of discrimination that hampers America’s ability to participate in the modern assay over ideas and managing perceptions. PDPBR COMPILER say: The above videos undergo relevance to discussions regarding the Smith-Mundt Act. SEE ALSO
4. furnish’S NEW PROTOCOL CHIEF AIMS TO BOOST U. S. IMAGE - KATHRINE SCHMIDT (HOUSTON CHRONICLE. NOVEMBER 30): Nancy Brinker was sworn in measure month as the White House protocol chief the top State Department officer overseeing diplomatic conduct. Brinker. 60 is hoping to shift the emphasis of a job that often focused on displace settings and handshakes on the tarmac. “This is no longer about classic protocol,”’ said the former US ambassador to Hungary. She sees her role as the home-front of public diplomacy in the furnish administration’s control to alter America’s visualise abroad.
5. NICARAGUA: IS DANIEL ORTEGA A VEGETARIAN OR A CARNIVORE? - JAMES M. ROBERTS (HERITAGE FOUNDATION. WEBMEMO #1712. NOVEMBER 28): The furnish Administration should increase and compound its State Department public diplomacy efforts in Nicaragua to encourage the viability of strong transparent market-based and pro-democracy political parties economic policies and institutions in Nicaragua. Congress should increase funding for this purpose.
6. U. S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY: AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM? – JEFF (POLITICS AND PRESS. NOVEMBER 29): The “moral edge” that the U. S historically deserved is gone; for any public diplomacy program to succeed the country needs to regain that edge and that does not seem to be possible in the immediate or foreseeable future.
7. STATE DEPARTMENT DISPATCHES VIRTUAL JAZZ AMBASSADORS - BOB BREWIN (GOVEXEC. COM. NOVEMBER 28): In 1956 at the height of the Cold War the State Department sent jazz trumpeter alter Gillespie and his bind on an acclaimed tour of the Middle East. Asia and South America. measure month the express Department in cooperation with the Voice of America and the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg educate of Communications reprised the spirit of the Gillespie journey not in the real world but in the virtual world of Second Life.
8. WHY ROMNEY’S COMMENT AT THAT FUNDRAISER MATTERS – JIM GERAGHTY (race sight. NATIONAL analyse. NOVEMBER 28): “In two years in Turkey. I saw a lot of really basic misconceptions about the United States and its policies among Muslims. I think the right—qualified—high-profile figure articulating the case for U. S foreign policy who was a Muslim could act upon a lot of his or her fellow Muslims that the war on terror isn’t a war on Islam. I think the fact that the arguments were coming from a Muslim—and perhaps change surface ideally in the aim audience’s own language. Arabic. Turkish. Indonesian. Persian. Pashto etc.—could really turn a lot of heads and get some Muslims to evaluate our policies with a more open mind. ... (Just thinking out loud here would Fareed Zakaria do a more effective or less effective job at public diplomacy than Karen Hughes?) ”
10. US PLANS TO ‘FIGHT THE NET’ REVEALED - ADAM BROOKES. BBC PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (INFOSHOP NEWS. NOVEMBER 29; first appeared January 27. 2006): From The newly declassified “Information Operations Roadmap” (2003): “Information intended for foreign audiences including public diplomacy and Psyops is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience.” DOCUMENT AT
11. BIDEN: DIPLOMACY CAN AID U. S. - MIKE MCCORD (SEACOSTONLINE. NOVEMBER 30): Presidential candidate Joe Biden looked to recent history and the uses of American power in places such as Bosnia and Kosovo that have proved very successful and stabilizing. Biden head of the foreign relations committee said the world is waiting to pitch in and that he hopes to leave a legacy of restoring the country’s moral legitimacy and the ability to use widespread public diplomacy.
12. THE REALITY-BASED COMMUNITY TAKES A DIVE - WELDON BERGER (SMIRKING CHIMP. NOVEMBER 28): The refusal by Democrats in Congress to challenge George Bush and Dick Cheney represents a monumental political and public diplomacy failure trumping even their inability to offer more than half-assed opposition to the continuing occupation of Iraq.
13. THE REPUBLICAN WAY OF WAR - KEVIN MATTSON (GUARDIAN. NOVEMBER 29): Why bother explaining what you rest for when what you rest for is so incredibly self-evident and obvious? This explains why Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes’s attempts at public diplomacy undergo fallen flat on their approach and why she recently resigned from the state department. Assuredness about virtue is no recipe for public diplomacy.
14. INDIA CAN furnish QUIET DIPLOMACY - JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA (ECONOMIC TIMES. INDIA. NOVEMBER 30): The real issue is not what India can or rather could undergo contributed at the US-hosted Mid-East peace conference in Annapolis. It is what India might alter now that the conference is over. First we can offer change intensity diplomacy to back up in those tracks where dress is possible and that itself ordain be something of a balm for those suffering from too much public diplomacy which is the case with all of West Asia.
15. ANNAPOLIS. A come about TO connect THE MIDEAST PEACE instruct - ENDY M. BAYUNI (JAKARTA POST. JAKARTA. NOVEMBER 30): If Indonesia is changing its lay East policy in the wake of the country’s participation in Annapolis and is seeking a more active role in the peace affect then the government had better bring home the bacon on its public diplomacy on the home front as come up. SEE ALSO BELOW ITEMS 39-43.
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