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Tag Archives: State Department
New Book Review: “Through a Screen Darkly”
I’m happy to post my review of Martha Bayles’ recent book on public diplomacy, Through a Screen Darkly, published this month in The Hague Journal of Diplomacy by Clingendael in The Netherlands. The article is behind a pay wall but should be available … Continue reading
America Is It
State Department and Customs and Border Protection, take note. Leave it to Coca-Cola, the preeminent American brand, to get so much right in 60 seconds during the Super Bowl. The short spot is the song “America the Beautiful” cut between … Continue reading
The Corrections
I found an error in Table 7.2 on page 124 relating to languages spoken in the United States. All of the numbers are from the U.S. Census Bureau and are accurate. But French (including dialects) at 1,358,816 inexplicably appears as … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Public Diplomacy
Tagged Books, Carl Bildt, current-events, EU, force, Georgia, international relations, NATO, Public Diplomacy, Russia, South Ossetia, State Department, The United States and the Challenge of Public Diplomacy, U.S. State Department
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“We have met the enemy and he is us”
Attending a conference of public diplomacy professionals and academics last week at the U.S. State Department, a particular comment made by a participant during one of the main sessions struck me. He described the positive outcome of a recent YES … Continue reading
Posted in Public Diplomacy
Tagged aesthetics and politics, American culture, Communism, current-events, Hollywood, international relations, propaganda, Public Diplomacy, soft power, State Department, strategic communications, totalitarian regimes, U.S. State Department, United States
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What Propaganda Means and Why It Matters
Let’s suppose that a large American newspaper ran an editorial deflecting accusations that its political opinions were too partisan. It deflected those who argued against the newspaper’s position and advanced the position that the newspaper’s opinion were correct and fair. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Public Diplomacy
Tagged Afghanistan, COIN, counterinsurgency, information operations, Joint Doctrine, Military Information Support Operations, MISO, NATO, propaganda, psychological operations, psychological warfare, Public Diplomacy, State Department, strategic communications, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, USA Today
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Twitter in a Teapot?
An article last month in Foreign Policy brought to light a “full-blown Twitter war” between the State Department’s Digital Outreach Team (DOT) and a “prominent” jihadi named Mu’awiya al-Qahtani using the feed service under the handle @Al_Bttaar. Written by Will McCants, who … Continue reading
The How and the What of Public Diplomacy
My not-last post about the U.S. State Department’s public diplomacy snowballed some additional thinking about the tradecraft. There really is no better way to illustrate good public diplomacy than through comparison and case studies; that is, examining what other people … Continue reading
Posted in North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Public Diplomacy
Tagged Brussels, Czech Republic, EU, Europa to osladime, European Council, European Union, international relations, Luxembourg, NATO, politics, Prague, Public Diplomacy, State Department, strategic communications, Vaclav Klaus, We will sweeten Europe
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Podcast Blues
NOTE Sept. 12: Amb. Chris Stevens, who is mentioned in this post, was killed alongside three other American diplomats during an assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Stevens becomes the first American ambassador killed in service since 1988. … Continue reading
