Elizabeth M. Allen Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
On April 4, 2022, Secretary of State Antony Blinken delegated the functions and authorities of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs...
John Hering – Senior Government Affairs Manager for Digital Diplomacy
John Hering - Senior Government Affairs Manager for Digital Diplomacy
John Hering is a Senior Government Affairs Manager for Digital Diplomacy at the United Nations....
ChatGPT: The end of diplomacy as we know it
Corneliu Bjola and Ilan Manor argue that the stage is set for the emergence of AI-driven diplomacy and explore its implications.
Lord Palmerston, a British...
US media outlet quits Twitter over labeling row
State-funded NPR has announced its exit from the social media platform after a new label pointed out its government link
NPR's headquarters in Washington is...
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...