Public diplomacy

TONY TAI-TING LIU, DEC 30 2018, International relations uncaptioned image from article This is an advance preview from New Perspectives on China’s Relations with the World: National, Transnational and International (forthcoming 2019). Since Joshua Kurlantzick (2007, 6) coined the term ‘charm offensive’ in 2007, the term has stuck in the study of International Relations to refer to China’s use of soft power to improve its global status and image. While the idea of China charming the world with its economic and cultural prowess has not changed too much over the past decade, the ways Beijing has adopted to charm other states have diversified since. In conjunction with such developments, in recent years, the term ‘public diplomacy’ has come to replace charm offensive as China’s latest efforts to improve its status and image through soft means. Noting China’s recent turn towards public diplomacy, this chapter seeks to address the topic in three sections. Part one examines the idea of public..

peacefmonline.com Image from article, with caption: Dr. WASK with Iv. Savvov, Founder, Managing Partner Europe Business Assembly, Oxford, UK Being an entrepreneur can be challenging, rewarding, frustrating, satisfying, disappointing, and exhilarating. Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. The high entrepreneurial skills in Dr. Williams Anarfi Sarpong popularly called Dr. WASK has caught the attention of the Europe Business Assembly and as such have been appointed the EBA Ambassador to Ghana and West Africa. The Europe Business Assembly is a multinational research and analytical center of image technologies, PR projects and international cooperation programmes in various spheres of human activity. The center was founded in 2000 in Oxford (Great Britain). It had founders who were scientists of universities and heads of commercial structures and public organizations of old Europe, who work ..

Nike Popoola and Samson Folarin, punchng.com, December 28 Ikupolati image fromExcerpt: Your darling newspaper, PUNCH, won the Editor of the Year award and four others at the 26th edition of the Nigerian Media Merit Awards, which took place at the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos on Thursday night. ... The guest speaker, Prof. Mike Ikupolati, who spoke on leadership, said, “A leader is not measured by what he does to himself, but what he does to others.” Ikupolati, who is the president and chairman of the Governing Council, Chartered Institute of Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] and Management of Nigeria, stressed that a leader must be selfless and able to manage crisis. ...

Malik Siraj Akbar, atimes.com, December 8; below images& data from Wikipedia Balochistan بلوچستان‬ProvinceTop left to right: Quaid-e-Azam Residency, Makran Coastal Highway, Hingol National Park, Hanna Lake and Khuzdar Flag Seal Location of BalochistanCoordinates: 27.7°N 65.7°ECountry PakistanEstablished14 August 1947Provincial CapitalQuettaLargest cityQuettaSubdivisionsList[hide]Districts: 32Union Councils: 86Government • TypeProvince • BodyProvincial Assembly • GovernorAmanullah Khan Yasinzai[1] • Chief MinisterJam Kamal Khan • Chief SecretaryAkhtar Nazir • Inspector GeneralMohsin Hassan Butt • LegislatureUnicameral (65 seats)Area • Total347,190 km2(134,050 sq mi)Population (2017)[2][3] • Total12,344,408 • Density36/km2 (92/sq mi)Demonym(s)BalochTime zoneUTC+5 (PKT)ISO 3166 codePK-BAHDI (2017)0.474[4] lowProvincial Assembly seats65Websitewww.balochistan.gov.pk On Tuesday, news broke that Aslam Baloch, the mastermind of the recent attack on the Chinese Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan,..

Western governments and rights groups say it is premature to encourage the refugees’ return. Image from article, with caption: Syrian refugees women hold their children as they sit in Ouzai refugee compound, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon. BEIRUT - Even as Russia pushes to repatriate Syrians who fled their country during the civil war and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) forecast that 250,000 could return to Syria in 2019, many are unwilling to go back, citing safety concerns and uncertainties shrouding Syria’s future. Only a trickle of the estimated 6 million refugees, mostly hosted in neighbouring Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, have been repatriated since violence subsided and the Russians began their initiative to facilitate their return in July. Eager to show a normalising situation in Syria, Russia stepped up efforts to encourage the refugees’ return arguing that the fighting is over and terrorism has been largely stamped out. “The conditions allow their repatriation now,” ..

Reporter: antaranews.com, December 30 Farouk Abdullah Alwyni image from Depok, West Java (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government is expected to conduct humanitarian diplomacy in an active, free political context towards China in order to be open and provide correct information regarding the Uighur Muslim case and its peaceful resolution. This was revealed by Farouk Abdullah Alwyni, chairman of the Bureau of Foreign Services and Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), in his written statement on Saturday. Alwyni said Indonesia can be assertive and play an active role in helping Uighur Muslims in China to solve the problem of human rights violations that has befallen them. According to Alwyni, Indonesia is a country, with the largest Muslim-majority population in the world, that must appear to fight for justice and world peace. "It is necessary to fight for protection of ethnic minorities from human rights violations anywhere and become a national commit..

Guy W. Farmer, Nevada Appeal; see also (1) Farmer image from article The Senate Intelligence Committee recently released two independent reports on Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election in the United States. The reports accuse the Russian government of conducting a disinformation campaign designed "to help elect President Trump, and worked even harder to support him while in office." "The Russians aimed particular energy at activating conservatives on issues such as gun rights and immigration, while sapping the political clout of left-leaning minority voters by undermining their faith in elections …" both reports concluded. And what are we doing to counter Russia's ongoing disinformation campaign? Not much! During the Cold War I spent 28 years with the now defunct U.S. Information Agency (USIA), which told America's story to the world (the agency's motto) and aggressively countered Soviet disinformation and misinformation. But after USIA was merged..

December 23, 2018 Timothy Dodman*, Robert Gosende*: A Note for Secretary of State Pompeo image from Secretary Pompeo should note from the December issue of The Foreign Service Journal [JB -- see] that the largest employee group within the cabinet Department for which he is responsible is our more than 55,000-strong corps of Foreign Service National Employees. If he reads that December issue of the FSJ he will also learn that this key group of State employees provides the continuity and collective memory of our missions abroad and in many ways the backbone of our foreign policy mechanism around the world. What is not specifically stated in the December issue is the fact that when the annual budget for the Department of State is not approved on time by the Congress and the President, this entire Foreign Service National Employee (FSN) Corps is automatically placed on leave without pay. Many of these essential employees occupy low-paying positions. None of these key employees earn high-pa..

boe.chc.edu.tw image (not from entry) from [From pdf: JB - full text cannot for evidently technical reasons be copied/transmitted; pls refer to the original document via the Internet for full text] The American Institute in Taiwan Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] Section is pleased to invite candidates to apply for one of the Summer. 2019 Study of the U.S. Institute programs below ...

Karen J. Greenberg, lobelog.como Image from article: USCGC Bertholf, a National Security Cutter (Wikimedia Commons) I grew up in New London, Connecticut, watching many a military ship float by my window. New London was home to the Coast Guard Academy and sat across the river from a U.S. Navy submarine base. Uniformed guardsmen, sailors in training, and sub crews leaving port would regularly wave to my friends and me from the decks of their ships. It never occurred to me that, 50 years later, such ships would come to my attention again, this time because of the confusing messages they’re sending overseas, a reflection of the conflicting images embedded in Washington’s latest version of diplomacy and foreign policy. We still want populations around the world to admire, appreciate, and respect this country as a democracy and a powerful protector. Some ships are used to make exactly that point. And yet, in the twenty-first-century version of war American-style, other ships have become the..