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Ryan Scoville, lawfareblog.com; for Tables 1 & 2, mentioned in the text below, and which for technical reasons cannot be reproduced in full on this blog, please consult original article. Then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with U.S. ambassadors and chargé d'affaires for South America, February 2018 (Source: Flickr/State Department)Since the 1950s, presidents have consistently allocated roughly 30 percent of ambassadorial appointments to individuals who are not career diplomats. This practice, atypical among advanced democracies and a recurrent source of controversy, is currently on track to expand: Over the first two years of the Trump administration, more than 40 percent of appointments to bilateral ambassadorships went to presidential supporters who are not foreign service officers. For example, Robert Wood Johnson IV—the ambassador to the United Kingdom—co-owns the New York Jets. Carla Sands (Denmark) is a chiropractor and former actress. David Friedman (Israel) is a ba..

www2.fundsforngos.org image from Big Opportunities for Small NGOs. Click here to learn more.Deadline: 23 April 2019The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy South Africa of the U.S. Department of State has announced an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] Small Grants Program.GoalsThrough the FY2019 Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program, PAS aims to:Counter transnational threats and foster American securityPromote prosperity and good governanceAdvance public health, human rights, and dignity.ObjectivesEntrepreneurship & Economic Growth A continuum of activities that support innovation and entrepreneurship, in particular startups in the social entrepreneurship space that are sustainable and contribute to job creation; activities that encourage trade and investment and other partner relationships between entities in the United States and South Africa to promote economic growth and prosperity.Education Activities that..

paxuzy.ga/id_sumuk.pdf# Image (not from entry) from Excerpt: A thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy II Information Systems at Massey University, Palmerston, North New Zealand ... Date 1995 Author Walker, Ute Rights The Author Publisher Massey University URI http://hdl.handle.net/10179/5775 Collections Theses and Dissertations Metadata Show full item record ... Abstract This study investigates the bilingualism of four German-background children in New Zealand. The aim of the research was to gain more in-depth information about the processes involved in a language contact situation to complement findings already made at the macro level with a focus on groups. A case study approach enabled the collection of rich qualitative data from a variety of sources which were examined from a sociolinguistic as well as a psychosocial perspective in order to address the questions of language choice and distribution, language attitudes and l..

diplopundit.net, Posted: 12:30 am EST We’re late on this but apparently, Heather Nauert who was publicly announced as nominee to be the next U.N. Ambassador has withdrawn herself from consideration citing “the past two months” as “grueling” for her family. Her statement released with the State Department announcement on February 16 says that “it is in the best interest” of her family to withdraw.Bloomberg News says “Trump’s pick for UN ambassador had employed a nanny who was in US legally but didn’t have a US work permit.”Wait. When was this nanny hired? The spokesperson job does not require senate confirmation but like almost all jobs at the State Department, it requires a security clearance. So are they saying that the nanny issue, if that was the issue, did not come up during her initial vetting when she first came to State two years ago?MSM is also reporting that Ms. Nauert is not expected to return to her State Department jobs. Until her announced nomination, she was the departmen..

sanangelolive.com When: February 19, 2019 - 6:00pm Category: Educational Excerpt: Angelo State University will present Earl Anthony “Tony” Wayne, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico, as the featured speaker for the 2019 E. James Holland-Roy A. Harrell Jr. Foreign Affairs Speakers Program on Tuesday, Feb. 19, in the Houston Harte University Center, 1910 Rosemont Drive. Wayne’s presentation, titled “The Importance of Getting U.S.-Mexico Relations Right,” will begin at 6 p.m. in the University Center’s C.J. Davidson Conference Center and is open free to the public. Wayne has served in a wide variety of positions during his career, including as U.S. ambassador to Mexico and Argentina, deputy ambassador in Afghanistan, assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs, and principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe. He has successfully led complex organizations and teams in Washington, D.C., and overseas, working to develop and implement policies involving countr..

youtube.com Penn State’s World in Conversation: the Center for Public Diplomacy [JB emphasia] held a “Day of Dialogue” on Jan. 21, drawing more than 600 campus community members together in Thomas Building on the University Park campus, to participate in 60 facilitated dialogue groups held throughout the day. Every group conversation – a mix of students, faculty and staff – included two Penn State student facilitators trained by World in Conversation, a student-driven center dedicated to building greater understanding on contentious topics through facilitated dialogue, a methodology for helping people more effectively and meaningfully communicate with each other.

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pdaa.publicdiplomacy (Updated Feb. 18, 2019) After decades of hostile or no communication, difficult, often halting efforts to negotiate, “soft power” diplomacy (including visits to North Korea by the New York Philharmonic and basketball player Dennis Rodman), and a dangerous ratcheting-up of nuclear brinksmanship in 2017, in March 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to meet. That first-ever US-DPRK summit took place on June 12, 2018, in Singapore. Hailed as a success by both leaders and by South Korea, which played a key role in brokering it, the summit’s results have been mixed or limited, although both leaders have pledged to hold another summit this year. President Donald J. Trump with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un | June 12, 2018 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)Looking beyond the prognosis for success of this latest effort, how can and should the United States engage a hard-to-reach country like North Korea, both diplom..

Erik Sass, Mental Floss, April 4, 2017; original article contains additional illustrations; see also article on Creel and WWI propaganda in Excerpt: [I]n the speech’s climactic passage, Wilson laid his request before Congress: With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it, and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war. ... Wilson hastened to emphasize that America’s fight was with the..

Kerrie Kennedy, thepienews.com, Feb 18 2019 Image from article: The Committee urged the UK and the EU to work together to avoid any disruption to Erasmus+ placements in the event of a no-deal scenario. Photo: Wikicommons/ Dave Kellam. The House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee has called on the UK government to clarify its plans for the country’s future access to Erasmus, warning that it would be a “formidable challenge” to try to replicate at a national level the benefits of the EU’s programs. In its report ‘Brexit: the Erasmus and Horizon programmes’, the Committee urged the UK and the EU to work together to avoid any disruption to Erasmus+ placements in the event of a no-deal scenario. “It is in the UK and the EU’s mutual interest to preserve current close levels of cooperation” It also stated that losing access to the program would “disproportionately affect” people from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with medical needs or disabilities. “We strongly believe…that it is i..