“BIDD Theme this week” The Dangerous Absurdity of the Secret “Cuban Twitter”
An eye-catching A.P. story, published Thursday, revealed that, in 2010, the United States Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D.) covertly deployed a social-media program in...
“BIDD Theme this week” White House denies ‘Cuban Twitter’ ZunZuneo programme was...
The White House is claiming that a secret programme to build a carefully-disguised “Cuban Twitter”, in order to foment political opposition to the...
“BIDD Theme this week” US government harassed Castro with a fake Twitter...
Federal aid agency wanted to 'renegotiate the balance of power between state and society' in Havana
By Amar Toor on April 3, 2014 04:59 am...
“BIDD Theme this week” Secret ‘Cuban Twitter’ program poses challenge for...
Finding that program funded by USAid could be damaging to groups working to increase access to technology, say analysts
The revelation that a US government-funded...
“BIDD Theme this week” U.S. secretly built Cuban ‘Twitter’ to...
Program spearheaded by USAID sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on Internet and push users toward dissent
April 3, 2014 7:43AM ET Updated 4:12PM ET
Ramon Espinosa/AP...
The Obama Campaign Goes Global
A tech architect from Barack Obama's 2008 campaign is looking to bring those tools to U.S. foreign policy
Tom Cochran, the Chief Technology Officer at...
Hip-Hop Propaganda: How The U.S. Enlists Rap Music To Fight ‘Jihadi Cool’
One of the odder phenomena of the last decade is hearing national security elites, terrorism experts, and career diplomats discuss the finer points of “flow,” “bling,”...
Beyond Remittances: Public Diplomacy and Kosovo’s Diaspora
July 16, 2012
Xharra, B. and Wählisch. M., 2012. Beyond Remittances: Public Diplomacy and Kosovo‘s Diaspora. Pristina: Foreign Policy Club.
Abstract:
As a...
On Gastrodiplomacy Campaigns
On Gastrodiplomacy Campaigns
An Interview with U.S. Foreign Service Officer Mary Jo Pham
U.S. Foreign Service Officer Mary Jo A. Pham is an expert in gastrodiplomacy....
Most F(l)avored Nation Status: The Gastrodiplomacy of Japan’s Global Promotion of Cuisine
By Theodore C. Bestor
Sushi in Tashkent, ramen in Melbourne, tofu everywhere, and edamame coming soon to (or already at) a salad bar near you!...
