Ukraine at a Crossroads
The most underreported crisis in the world may finally be getting the attention it deserves. Ukraine has had a rough path since independence, especially when measured against the hopes that were...
View ArticleUkraine: Is It Time for Public Diplomacy?
Henry Kissinger notes in the Washington Post on March 5, “Public discussion on Ukraine is all about confrontation.” And yet, this is a situation where neither the United States nor the Europeans...
View ArticleTime To Hit The Reset Button On Public Diplomacy?
George Kennan is looking smarter and smarter these days. Kennan served at a time when America was happy to welcome its soldiers home from World War II and uninterested in new global commitments....
View ArticleFighting Back Against The Big Lie
There is so much going on in the news these days that stories about the crisis in Ukraine are often hard to find in the U.S. media. But for some people, Ukraine is the top story every day. And...
View ArticleThe Best of the Best -- 2014's Public Diplomacy
Okay, here it is. The year 2014’s best in public diplomacy – acts, innovations, programs, ideas, communications, etc. We asked you, the readers, to nominate the public diplomacy you thought made a...
View ArticleQuotable: Using information to influence Russian decision-making
The April, 2015, issue of the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings includes an article, “Hear This -- Russia: Constrain, Not Contain,” by Commander Daryk Zirkle, the deputy director of Intelligence for...
View ArticleQuotable: Christopher Walker on "ideas, media instruments, and technology"
In an August 3, 2015 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Christopher Walker, executive director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy, discussed “The...
View ArticleQuotable: Aliya Sternstein on distortion of social media analytics by trolls
"[A]utocracies are deploying "trolls" -- robotic feeds or paid commentators -- to sway social media trends," noted cybersecurity and homeland security systems expert Aliya Sternstein, writing for the...
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