Public diplomacy

[The Pleasure of Being Impersonated?] Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through...

Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg and Jack Nicas, The New York Times, Nov. 14, 2018; original article contains additional photographs and links See also John Brown, "Don't we all love Facebook? (updated, 10/14, 2018), Notes and Essays [Re a Facebook message that informed yours truly, a former Senior US Foreign Service diplomat focusing on public diplomacy, that "Someone reported you for impersonation," image (not from below article) from thereby, evidently, my being kicked off Facebook, which actually turned out to be a mental liberation in disguise! (I did provide the required proofs of my identity to Facebook, but never got a reply from "them" (i.e., the Algorithm?). Image from article, with caption: Facebook has gone on the attack as one scandal after another — Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — has led to a congressional and consumer backlash Sheryl Sandberg was seething. Inside Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top exe..

Trump’s likely pick for UN ambassador, former ‘Fox & Friends’ host Heather Nauert, would...

Michael Hirsh, Foreign Policy, posted on businessinsider.com; see also (1) (2) "She's smart, put together, and sophisticated. But she's not someone who's going to go toe-to-toe on policy with John Bolton." Alex Brandon/Associated PressLongtime UN observers say Heather Nauert would also be the least qualified person ever to hold the job of US Ambassador to the UN. Critics say Nauert, who is currently the State Department's spokesperson, is almost without policy experience.Before becoming State Department spokesperson in 2017, Nauert worked as a correspondent for ABC and Fox News. She went on to become a news presenter and co-anchor.No one who has worked with Heather Nauert doubts that she's a pretty good briefer, or that the former Fox & Friends host is a winning personality on camera. But longtime UN observers say Nauert, who is said to be US President Donald Trump's leading candidate to replace outgoing United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, would also b..

Academic Diplomacy, an Evolving Discipline

Balasubramanyam Chandramohan, University of London, Dr. Dan Rycroft, University of East Anglia, diplomacybeyond.com image (not from article) from Academic diplomacy is an area under higher education activity that has real potential in today’s world. It has two key facets: practice and policy, and theory. Academic diplomacy as a practice, as a set of activities between individuals and between states, has existed for several centuries, though has rarely been termed as such [.]When scholars travelled long distances in search of knowledge and understanding, whether of the physical or the metaphysical world, they connected with people and spread ideas. Their diplomacy, so to speak, was purely academic. Ancient centers such as Kancheepuram or Nalanda in India and their modern-day equivalents all help to facilitate such exchanges. Circulation of knowledge displays academic diplomacy in action at an individual level which is, nowadays, termed as knowledge diplomacy or public diplomacy [JB emph..

The Balkan White House: Slovenia (Melania) vs. Croatia (Mira) [with a mention of...

image from Friendship pins Slovenia-Croatia From the New York Times: "Melania Trump Says an Aide [Ms. Mira Ricardel] ‘No Longer Deserves the Honor of Serving in This White House’" [see also.] A fixture in Republican foreign policy circles, Ms. [Mira Radielovic] Ricardel has honed a reputation as a hawk on policy and as a hard-edge bureaucratic infighter. During the early 1990s, she advised Senator Bob Dole on the Balkans, drawing on her own Croatian background, and later worked for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in President George W. Bush’s administration.From Wikipedia: "Born Mira P. Radielovic, she is of Croatian descent. Her father came from Breza, Bosnia and Herzegovina and left Yugoslavia in 1954 and arriving in the United States in 1956. Mira grew up in Pasadena, California, and at home spoke the Croatian language. Her family followed the Croatian Catholic Church and worshipped in Arcadia, California."***From the New York Times: "In First Lady’s Hometown in Slovenia, the B..

Executive Assistant to the Ambassador

ethiojobs.net Executive Assistant to the AmbassadorJob by Australian Embassy, Addis Ababa(Job Id: 188162 | 265 Views)Posted13NovCategory:Admin, Secretarial and Clerical, Business and Administration, ManagementLocation: Addis Ababa Career Level: Senior Level (5+ years experience)Employment Type: Full timeSalary: View Jobs by this companyJob DescriptionAgency: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)Place of Work: Australian Embassy, Addis AbabaPosition Title: Executive Assistant to the Ambassador (P/N 11032)Classification: LE3Section: CorporateReporting to: Ambassador About the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)The role of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is to advance the interests of Australia and Australians internationally. This involves strengthening Australia’s security, enhancing Australia’s prosperity, delivering an effective and high quality overseas aid program and helping Australian travellers and Australians overse..

John Casson: Digital Diplomacy

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Diplomacy dies in darkness: Europe and information manipulation

“Information manipulation” or just plain “fake news”? How France is grappling with a very modern threat Whether it is the refugee crisis, Catalonia, or last...

File Notes on Information, Communication, and Public Diplomacy (#97)

Arabs need to read in their own language so they can understand and discuss the various aspects and complications of democracy in the United...

WeChat, China’s Weapon of Mass Propaganda?

Khun Joy benefits by allowing transactions over 300 baht through WeChat Pay at her high-end souvenir and clothing shop in Koh Samui, Thailand. Many...