Public diplomacy

By Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, Jan 06, 2029 Image from article: Clippers center Marcin Gortat goes up for a shot against the Phoenix Suns on Jan. 4. (Rick Scuteri / Associated Press) For someone who’d just played his best game of the season, center Marcin Gortat was rather subdued at his locker after the Clippers’ victory Friday in Phoenix. “Yeah, it feels good,” he said, “but I wish to have the same game on Sunday.” Barring a Clippers playoff berth this season, no game will mean more to Gortat than Sunday’s celebration of “Polish heritage day” during the Staples Center matinee against Orlando. The 34-year-old Gortat, the fourth NBA player produced by Poland and the only one actively in the league, is a role player for the Clippers but a celebrity in his home country, where he employs nearly a dozen through his MG13 Foundation and helps fund and oversee four schools that develop young athletes. “It’s a huge responsibility,” he said. “I’m like an ambassador of my country showing t..

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c-span.org The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy held a discussion on war and the use of social media. image from The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy held a discussion on politics, war and the use of social media. Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking, co-authors of “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media,” discussed what they learned from five years researching their book in which they discussed the tool sets and strategies of social media influencing, and how those same tactics are similarly employed by political campaigns, celebrities and nefarious actors. They also talked about what more the U.S. government should do to both modernize its own cybersecurity and educate American companies and private citizens for better online health and security. PEOPLE IN THIS VIDEO Cynthia EfirdPresidentPublic Diplomacy [JB emphasis] Alumni AssociationAdam Clayton Powell IIIPresidentPublic Diplomacy [JB emphasis CouncilHOSTING ORGANIZATIONUniv..

annenberg.usc.edu/communication/public-diplomacy-MPD News Events Alumni Give NowSearch formSearchSCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION»PUBLIC DIPLOMACY (M.P.D.)Master of Public DiplomacyThe Master of Public Diplomacy degree, an APSIA program, is offered in partnership with the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences’ School of International Relations.APPLY NOWMPD ProjectsMPD ANNUAL STUDENT CONFERENCEMPD ANNUAL FIELD TRIPPD MAGAZINEMaster of Public Diplomacy Program InformationOVERVIEWLEARNING OBJECTIVESCURRICULUMCLASS PROFILE & CAREERSMID-CAREER PROFESSIONAL DEGREEAPSIASOCIETY OF PUBLIC DIPLOMATSAPPLY NOWMeet the StudentsMEET JILLIAN HEGEDUSMEET HYEON-SEON CHOIMEET WALTER QUINTANILLAMeet the FacultyRobert BanksClinical Associate Professor of Public DiplomacyG. Thomas GoodnightProfessor of CommunicationNicholas J. CullProfessor of Communication; Director, Master of Public Diplomacy programPamela StarrAssociate Professor (Teaching) of International RelationsJian (Jay) WangAssociate Profess..

Polly Curtis and Nick Cull image of Cull's book from Two respected figures in media research and journalism join the Reuters Institute this term as Visiting Fellows. Polly Curtis, former editor of HuffPost UK, and Nick Cull, Professor of Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, will play an active role in furthering the institute’s research and leadership development activities. Visiting Fellowships are designed to create close links with people working in other media organisations, or academic or research institutions, whose work aligns with the Reuters Institute. Polly Curtis spent most of her career at the Guardian where she became a senior editor running the daily news operation. She later became Director of Media at the British Red Cross and then Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost UK. Her research interests include the democratic news gap and how inequalities in accessing news could be exacerbat..

msn.com uncaptioned image from article Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. China is emphasising public diplomacy [JB emphasis] to help soften Indian public opinion and mute Indian concerns over an increasingly asymmetrical trade relationship. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in New Delhi the new people-to-people mechanism will “help consolidate the public-opinion foundation” for bilateral ties. China’s public diplomacy aims to underpin its “win-win” policy toward India — engagement with containment. New Delhi, however inadvertently, is lending a helping hand to Beijing’s strategy of engagement as a façade for containment. India has done little more than implore China to rein in its spiralling trade surplus. The lopsided trade relationship makes India essentially a colonial-style raw-material appendage of the state-led Chinese economy, which increasingly dumps manufactured go..

hkuspace.hku.hk DATE & TIME 23 JAN 2019 (WED) 17:30 - 19:00 FREE VENUE Room 205, Admiralty 2/F, Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong SPEAKER Mr. Clayton Powell III, President of Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] Council of the United States and Director of Washington Programs for the University of Southern California’s Center on Communication Leadership and Policy Commentator: Mr. Peter M Herford [JB - see], Journalism Professor and Former Producer for 60 Minutes Host: Professor N.R. Liu, Deputy Director (Business and China) of HKU SPACE and Principal of HKU SPACE Executive Academy (SEA) ENQUIRY 29755633 (sea@hkuspace.hku.hk) Public Lecture: U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Trump Era In a world of rising tensions, public diplomacy, or the art of communicating to the global public to foster dialogue and understanding, is a central element in international relations. Mr. Clayton Powell III, an expert in international communications, digital strategy and disruptive change, will share h..

By Benjamin Dynkin and Barry Dynkin, law.com/newyorklawjournal; see also (1) Photo: Christian Schwier/FotoliaIn a recent poll of cybersecurity experts, when asked if “state election systems [are] sufficiently protected against cyberthreats,” 95 percent responded no. Given the seriousness of the threat, and its ability to impact the future of the United States it is worth examining what other options there are in the United States’ playbook for dealing with election interference and hacking, specifically, the scope of responses permitted under international law to deter and respond to these types of attacks. ...The question of whether or not an electoral interference campaign that does not directly impact vote totals or the functionality of electoral systems can reach the necessary threshold of coercivity is both complicated and unsettled. Many theories of how such a campaign could potentially violate international law have been proposed, from the notion that the erosion of democratic l..

events.scps.nyu.edu image (not from entry) from, with the headline: Xi Jinping exhibits sports diplomacy with visit to IOC Start Date: 2/5/2019 Start Time: 8:30 AM End Date: 2/5/2019 End Time: 12:00 PM Event Description: In today’s global sports world, the intersection of sport and diplomacy has become an everyday phenomenon. The power of sport is wide and diverse but is greatest when it unifies citizens across cultures and communities to better understand each other; a remarkably similar outcome to that which Diplomacy endeavors to achieve. Different approaches to global sports leadership and utilization of sport as an element of soft power/public diplomacy [JB emphasis] efforts are deployed around the world by states and non-state actors like leagues, teams, companies, and individuals. But just what, exactly, does the intersection of sport and diplomacy look like? What is sport diplomacy? Who, in today’s Internet-connected, social media-influenced world, serves as de facto ambassador..

By James Stavridis, time.com Stavridis image from Admiral Stavridis (Ret.) was the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and is an Operating Executive at The Carlyle Group. [JB note: He also was until recently the dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a graduate school for international affairs, which includes the Edward R. Murrow [JB see] Murrow image from Center of a for a Digital World [:] Cyber [,] Media [,] Public Diplomacy," [JB emphasis] one of its programs being "Public Diplomacy Workshop, a student-led initiative focused on studying the theory and practice of public diplomacy.] After a couple of tumultuous years, President Donald Trump seems to have reached the conclusion that he has had quite enough of generals. Now, as a retired admiral, I have certainly been annoyed over the years by a number of generals. Yet by and large, I’ve found them quite effective as leaders, organizers, planners and strategists–the type one would expect from those wh..