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“It could be there is some well-thought-out strategy behind all of this,” Mr.[ Stephen] Schwartz [United States ambassador to Somalia from 2016 to 2017] added, “but I really doubt it.”
–From Eric Schmitt and Charlie Savage, "Trump Administration Steps Up Air War in Somalia," The New York Times (March 10, 2019)
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WASHINGTON D.C. – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today wrote a letter to Marie Royce, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, to express his concern about the declining number of international students enrolling in U.S. colleges and universities during the Trump Administration. According to a State Department-funded report, enrollment of international students has fallen for the second straight year.
“I worry that the Administration’s aggressive anti-immigration posture and xenophobic orientation – including restricting the issuance of skilled-worker visas, permanent residencies, and seeking to establish a maximum stay period for international students – deters many potential students who have dreams of studying at one of America’s great educational in..
Public diplomacy influences how individuals around the world come to know and understand one another. The field’s underlying focus on people-to-people interaction emphasizes the fundamental human connection at the core of all human rights. Whether one’s values include diversity, equality, pluralism, inclusiveness, or freedom of expression, public diplomacy provides an avenue by which to build
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NOVEMBER 26, 2018Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Jennifer Hubbertby Yancee Gordon BA ’21Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Jennifer Hubbert has been awarded a two-year research fellowship through the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy. [JB emphasis] She is one of three faculty members selected this year from a global pool of applicants. Her project, “Recalling Public Diplomacy: Sister Cities and the Shifting Landscapes of International Relations,” will analyze public diplomacy through the Sister Cities International program.The Sister Cities International program was initiated during the Eisenhower era and remains one of the predominant programs for city-to-city diplomacy. Portland has nine sister city relationships, and Hubbert will begin her research by focusing on the histories of four: Suzhou, China; Bologna, Italy; Mutare, Zimbabwe; and Ashkelon, Israel. She will conduct research in both archival and ethnographi..
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Special talk by Gwen K. Young, Distinguished Fellow at the Women in Public Service Project at the Wilson Center
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Where are women in governments around the world? How much power do they hold? How did they get to their positions of leadership?The Global Women's Leadership Initiative Index is the first-of-its-kind tool that harnesses the power of data to answer these three key questions, providing a multi-dimensional snapshot of women's public service leadership in 75 countries across the globe.
Join Gwen K. Young, Managing Director of the Global Emergency Response Coalition and Distinguished Fellow at the Wilson Center's Women in Public Service Project, for a discussion of the index, key findings and trends in women’s leadership in the public sector.Moderating this program is Elizabeth McKay, CPD's Public Diplomat [JB emphasis] in Residence and Senior Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State..
SRBIJA POVLAČI 27 AMBASADORA DO NOVE GODINE Velike promene u diplomatiji, “Blic” saznaje NEKA OD NOVIH IMENA Do Nove godine će biti povučeni svi ambasadori Srbije kojima je istekao četvorogodišnji mandat. Nova imenovanja, kako “Blic” saznaje, uslediće nakon martovskih izbora. – Svi ambasadori u svetu kojima je istekao mandat biće vraćeni sa službe u Srbiju,
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