Opinion – ChatGPT and the Threat to Diplomacy
Historically, British Prime Ministers have taken a dim view of diplomats. Lloyd George stated that diplomats were invented simply to waste time. Edward Heath...
Trump, Michael Pack, and the complicated role of Voice of America
The last few months have been turbulent for Voice of America, the US state-backed broadcaster. Breaking, as he often does, with past presidents, Donald...
The vast pro-Ukrainian ‘bot army’ designed to influence Western policy makers
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have published a landmark paper on the activities of bot accounts on Twitter related to the conflict in...
US Senators Consider Former VOA Director to Head US Agency for Global Media
If confirmed, Bennett would lead USAGM, the federal agency with an $840 million annual budget that oversees VOA, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free...
71 years of RFE/RL: How the CIA-founded American state run media outlet survived the...
Originally established as an anti-Bolshevik endeavor, RFE/RL has thrived as US-Russia relations have nose-dived
The first of May marks the 51st anniversary of Radio Free Europe/Radio...
Raising Digital Diplomacy Southeast Asia Region Through ASEAN Foundation Amid Pandemic Covid-19 – OpEd
The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic caused many changes in the diplomacy agenda. Both diplomacy is carried out by state actors (government) and public...
Digital diplomacy is your friend … as long as you remember that friendship is...
First of all, I hope that you are all well, that these strange, sometimes even scary times marked by COVID-19 have not been too...
Why are U.S. Presidents not following other world leaders on social media?
President-elect Joe Biden is “expected to engage, engage, engage” wrote CBS News Foreign Affairs analyst Pamela Falk, adding “Mr. Biden has made it clear...
The Happiest Warrior Bruce Herschensohn, 1932–2020
Bruce Herschensohn would hate what I’m about to do. He always lamented that Years of Lightning, Day of Drums—the acclaimed documentary he produced about...
How Public Diplomacy Can Help Regain U.S. Credibility
Be honest with Americans and foreigners, fight authoritarian propaganda and empower diplomats in the field.
Frequently in the last four years, I — along with...