Public diplomacy

Shireen M Mazari, ssii.com.pk, January 10, 2019 uncaptioned image from article As warfare has altered over the decades with the shifting of the ‘centre of gravity’ and the notion of the cold war evolving into Hybrid warfare, so diplomacy and the domain of what was referred to as ‘foreign policy” – but now is more cohesively understood as a state’s external policy – have also altered qualitatively. Just as the Gnomes of Zurich lost their relevance once Swiss banks had to provide access and data of foreign accounts, so the Mandarins sitting in the enclosed ‘foreign offices’ across the world, conducting closed-door state-to-state diplomacy, are fast becoming an anachronism. Democracy and parliaments have been a factor in challenging the Mandarins’ closed-door approach to foreign policy, but even dictatorships and monarchies have had to move beyond the old style of diplomacy conducted behind closed doors where the internal dynamics of their states were neither a foreign policy agenda item ..

audioboom.com, Jan 10, 6:40 AM Shinichi Iida image from article The Japanese prime minister is holding talks with Theresa May later. Shinzo Abe is in the UK to discuss arrangements for the Rugby World Cup in Tokyo this year, but he’s also suggested he’ll be raising Brexit with the prime minister, and the importance of avoiding a No Deal outcome. Ahead of the visit, Nick Howard speaks to Shinichi Eeda, minister of public diplomacy [JB emphasis] at the Embassy of Japan.

prnewswire.com image (posted here due to technical reasons without green background color) from Nonprofit will bring Food Rescue Hero app to "20 Cities by 2020," beginning with Cleveland, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Excerpt: WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The food-recovery nonprofit Food Rescue Hero today signed Qorvis Communications to develop and execute a robust communications campaign as part of a national expansion of its Food Rescue Hero technology. ...About Qorvis CommunicationsQorvis Communications is Publicis Groupe's public affairs and geopolitical solutions offering. Qorvis is made up of a large corps of public affairs, public diplomacy, [JB emphasis] and strategic communications strategists who employ their diverse backgrounds and skillsets to produce positive outcomes for clients. The firm engages Publicis's vast resource network to further advance client efforts around the nation, and around the world. To learn more about Qorvis, visit: http://www..

marketpulse.com On the OANDA Business Breakfast this morning, Nick Howard and Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam discussed the latest on Jaguar Land Rover and Brexit. Nick also spoke with the Japanese minister for public diplomacy and media, Shinichi Iida, about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the UK. Click on the link [...] to listen to the show.

fpcj.jp, 2019.01.10 ■Yasushi Watanabe, Gaiko Vol.51 With the soft power of Western nations becoming unstable due to globalization, in an essay titled “Can Japanese diplomacy deal with universality?” in volume 51 of Gaiko, Keio University Professor Yasushi Watanabe argued that for the state of Japanese public diplomacy [JB emphasis] , “It is self-evident that the basic value desired from Japan is maintaining the ‘liberal international order.’” The reason he gave for this is that despite Japan having a population over 100 million and being the world’s third largest economy, with advanced technology, the country has no ambition towards global hegemony. Opinions toward and trust of Japan are generally positive worldwide, and Japan is even contributing to the expansion of free trade in the world In particular, in response to Japanese diplomacy being criticized as being in service to the US, Watanabe stated that due to the security environment of Japan, “It is not possible to confront the US..

by Jose Castillo, uscpublicdiplomacy.org, Jan 10, 2019 uncaptioned image from article Earlier last month, an important encounter of progressive minds took place in Burlington, Vermont. The Sanders Institute Gathering convened 250 leaders from across the globe to sit down and envision a transnational agenda of progressive solutions for the critical issues facing humanity—environmental and socioeconomic challenges that require global cooperation.The three-day gathering featured a diverse list of speakers—from Professor Cornel West and Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau, to former Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis and Senior UN Advisor Jeffrey Sachs. And of course, progressive icon U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.Image courtesy of The Sanders InstituteThe encounter comes as an internationalist response to the climate inaction of the liberal establishment and the growing threat of the global far-right movement. A movement that has seen authoritarian regimes pop up in places like Turkey and Bra..

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Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times, January 5, 2018China is emphasizing public diplomacy 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 goods there.Worse still, New Delhi effectively is funding China’s India containment strategy. India’s defence budget for the current financial year, at Rs..

wikipedia.org Image (not from article) from, with caption: US soldiers provide protection for advisors with the Nagarhar Agribusiness Development Team during a field inspection March 18, 2012 in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The agribusiness development team supports local farmers in developing sustainability Afghan agricultural productivity. Excerpt Agricultural Development Team[edit] Prior to 2008, the functions of Agricultural Development Teams were within Provincial Reconstruction Teams of the US Government. Today, ADTs consist of soldiers and airmen from the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard. Today, ADTs bring "an effective platform for enhanced dialogue, building confidence, sharing interests, and increasing cooperation amongst the disparate peoples and tribes of Afghanistan."[22] These teams are not only affiliated with the military, they frequently work across agencies, for example with USAID and the Department of State. ADTs provide education and expertise on the ground..

Robert Fife, Steven Chase, theglobeandmail.com, January 9, 2010 Lu Shaye image (not from article) from Chinese Ambassador Lu Shaye has accused Canada of applying a double standard and has decried what he sees as “Western egotism and white supremacy” in the treatment of detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. China’s envoy to Canada penned an angry Jan. 9 column in The Hill Times, a twice-weekly Ottawa publication that focuses on parliamentary affairs, in which he lashes out at Canada for demanding the release of two jailed Canadians while detaining Ms. Meng. “It’s understandable that these Canadians are concerned about their own citizens. But have they shown any concern or sympathy for [Ms.] Meng after she was illegally detained and deprived of freedom?” Mr. Lu wrote. China has imprisoned former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor in what appears to be retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Ms. Meng for extradition to the United States to face allegations of ba..