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From the files: David Hitchcock on Public Diplomacy Synergies
David I. Hitchcock, a member of the Public Diplomacy Council, was a public diplomacy officer for 35 years with the U.S. Information Agency. Overseas, he served in Hue, Kobe/Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo, and...
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For Veterans Day: To Spare Our Children from Violence and Sacrifice
Events more than seven decades ago prompt this short Veterans Day meditation for Public Diplomacy. On September 15, 1942, the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7), supporting the Guadalcanal campaign,...
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Quotable: Laura Jackson on “China’s New Way of War”
“China’s doctrine of Three Warfares, approved in 2003, recognises how war is changing in the information age. While kinetic force still remains necessary as a potent deterrent . . . Three Warfares aims...
View ArticleQuotable: Harry Lee on the PRC’s version of Chinese history
Journalist Harry W. S. Lee, writing in chinafile.com on September 2, 2014, provided additional perspective on the manipulation of historical narrative in China. His essay’s title was “The Danger of...
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Quotable: Nancy Snow on “Global Powers of Persuasion”
nancysnow.com “Soft power rises and falls based on a nation or region’s ability to attract others with the legitimacy of its policies and its underlying values,” wrote Public Diplomacy Council member...
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Quotable: Legatum Institute Report on Counter Propaganda by Nicholas Cull
usc.edu There’s an abundant historical literature on Public Diplomacy, and a July 24, 2015, report published by the Legatum Institute, “Counter Propaganda: Cases from US Public Diplomacy and Beyond,”...
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Quotable: Mina Yoon on the staying power of North Korea’s narrative
“Mina Yoon” is a North Korean who escaped and now lives in Seoul. She answers questions about North Korea in a blog on the nknews.org website. A reader asked, “Who do North Koreans think started the...
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Quotable: Nicholas Eberstadt on North Korea’s ideology
aei.org “The North Korean regime depends upon isolation from the outside world to maintain its grip and pursue its international objectives. The regime is deadly afraid of what it terms 'ideological...
View ArticleQuotable: Jay Nordlinger’s interview with George W. Bush
Jay Nordlinger of National Review wrote five “impromptus” after visiting former President George W. Bush in Texas. They appeared as five articles that ran on the magazine’s website from March 14-18,...
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Quotable: Lamb and Franco on strategic communications in the Long War
“U.S. foreign policy elites tend to believe public opinion at best complicates a steady hand on the strategy tiller. In turn, the public distrusts any U.S. Government management of information for fear...
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Public Diplomacy’s Oral History Interviews
Public Diplomacy’s Oral History Interviews Donald M. Bishop It’s a commonplace that most historical studies of U.S. public diplomacy have focused on Washington policies, themes, leaders, and decisions....
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Public Diplomacy's Oral History Interviews
Public Diplomacy’s Oral History Interviews Donald M. Bishop It’s a commonplace that most historical studies of U.S. public diplomacy have focused on Washington policies, themes, leaders, and decisions....
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