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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
A Man in Full
U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., announced this month he would not seek reelection this year after serving nearly 40 years in the House of Representatives. By any measure that is an extraordinary political career, but it is all the more … Continue reading →
How This Could End
A Washington Post/ABC News poll of the American public released before Christmas may have been ignored for the negative tone typical of surveys of this type. Thirteen years into the war in Afghanistan and months away from a definitive withdrawal, the conflict … Continue reading →
Now Available: The United States and the Challenge of Public Diplomacy
Today my latest book, The United States and the Challenge of Public Diplomacy, is available from Palgrave Macmillan. It can be ordered from Amazon.com, the publisher, or from any book store in your neighborhood. The Challenge of Public Diplomacy is based on … Continue reading →
Posted in Afghanistan, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Public Diplomacy, The Former Yugoslavia
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Tagged Barack Obama, Books, Cultural Diplomacy, current-events, Defense Department, information operations, international relations, language education, language interpretation, Military Information Support Operations, NATO, Palgrave Macmillan, Pentagon, propaganda, psychological operations, public affairs, Public Diplomacy, public opinion poll, soft power, State Department, strategic communications
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Culture Shut Down
It was hard not to feel a sense of schadenfreude watching Republicans yesterday as they wriggled in a box of their own design, desperately proposing to re-fund those “non-essential” elements of government they were so keen last month to de-fund … Continue reading →
The Image and the Message in Syria
President Barack Obama, an able writer and orator, is substantially challenged when he must speak about armed conflict. His formal speeches about warfare – whether he is lecturing the Nobel Committee in Oslo about just war theory, or muddling his … Continue reading →
Posted in Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy, Uncategorized
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Tagged Arab Spring, Barack Obama, bashar al assad, chemical weapons, political communications, Public Diplomacy, speechwriting, strategic communications, Syria, totalitarian regimes, weapons of mass destruction
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9 Things I Learned Crossing the Last Three Feet
My latest article, “9 Things I Learned Crossing the Last Three Feet,” was published today in Small Wars Journal, which published an earlier article I wrote about the Arab Spring and the repercussions around the Benghazi incident. My sincere gratitude goes … Continue reading →
NATO Wins, Again
Today NATO handed off operational security responsibility for all of Afghanistan to the Afghan government, a dramatic turning point in the war that began in the days following September 11, 2001. But as a former member of the NATO International … Continue reading →
Coming in October: “The United States and the Challenge of Public Diplomacy”
I’m pleased to announce that Palgrave Macmillan USA will publish my book, The United States and the Challenge of Public Diplomacy in October 2013. Based on my six years’ experience in public diplomacy at NATO and more than 15 years in … Continue reading →
Posted in Afghanistan, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Public Diplomacy, The Former Yugoslavia
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Tagged Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Books, Bosnia, current-events, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, macmillan usa, NATO, Public Diplomacy, public opinion poll, strategic communications
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12 Articles on Public Diplomacy Practice
In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence I published a feature article on public diplomacy practice in the summer 2013 issue of USC’s Public Diplomacy Magazine. You can read the article online here or download the pdf version. A previous interview with PD Magazine in the … Continue reading →
Posted in North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy
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Tagged Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Karen Hughes, Michelle Obama, NATO, Peggy Noonan, PEPFAR, Public Diplomacy, public opinion poll, soft power, strategic communications
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Misreading International Public Opinion…Again
Public opinion is like screen resolution: the more data points you have, the more accurate your picture is likely to be. This came to mind reading Washington Post foreign affairs blogger Max Fisher’s latest post about South Korean public opinion on the … Continue reading →
