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Tag Archives: U.S. State Department
The Price of Promotion
The State Department’s employee evaluation process is worse than terrible. It is no better than a gamble. Consider this career choice: you are a second-tour FS-04 consular officer serving your country in an American embassy abroad. You have tenure, which … Continue reading
Meet Mike Hankey
Two years ago I wrote about the State Department’s International Information Programs’ (IIP) initiative to develop short web-based videos to introduce American ambassadors and other principals to the countries in which they will serve. It was (and still is) a good idea, … Continue reading
Religion, politics, and public diplomacy
Today my interview with the Public Diplomacy Council — the association of retired US Information Agency and Foreign Service Officers involved in public diplomacy activities — was published online. I talked to Donald Bishop about my recent book and some … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Public Diplomacy, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Afghanistan, American culture, art, Cultural Diplomacy, Donald Bishop, Foreign Service Officers, Hollywood, interfaith, NATO, Public Diplomacy, public opinion poll, religion, strategic communications, the Public Diplomacy Council, U.S. State Department, US Information Agency
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Do We Need A Cultural Foreign Policy?
This month in Bosnia-Herzegovina citizens protested government paralysis in every major city in the country, in some places leading to destruction of municipal government buildings. In Sarajevo, somebody took advantage of the chaos and burned the city archives – a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Public Diplomacy, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged aesthetics and politics, Afghanistan, Arab Spring, art, Art Galleries, BiH, Bosnia, current-events, EU, George Clooney, George Stokes, Islamic art, Ma'il Qur'an, Mali, National Gallery of Art, Public Diplomacy, Sarajevo, Sarajevo Haggadah, Smithsonian Institution, The Monuments Men, U.S. State Department, USAID
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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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The Last Three Feet
Hear my interview with The Public Diplomat’s PDCast, courtesy of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications and its Master’s Program in Public Diplomacy. I talk about working at NATO, my new book, and effective public diplomacy. Many thanks to Michael … Continue reading
Posted in North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Public Diplomacy, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Afghanistan, Books, Bosnia, current-events, Iraq, Michael Ardaiolo, NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Pakistan, Public Diplomacy, Public Diplomat, public opinion poll, strategic communications, Syracuse University, 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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