> When presidents such as #BillClinton, #BarackObama, #DonaldTrump, and #JoeBiden nominate individuals who clearly lack integrity, it creates #cynicism at the very institutions these individuals are asked to lead. This was certainly true at the #CIA in the cases of Woolsey, Gates, and #GinaHaspel, and it will be true at a less well-known institution such as the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/21/the-strange-rehabilitation-of-elliott-abrams/
#EIliotAbrams #USApresidents #PublicDiplomacy #BidenAdministration

Santa sent me a wonderful Christmas gift. The last article of mine in 2022 was released online! It is on #China's #Intermestic #PublicDiplomacy at the very early stage of the #COVID19 #Pandemic. #DICENIDF https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JCOM-04-2022-0042/full/html

#Renaissance #earlymodern #history #histodons #PublicDiplomacy #Diplomacy

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📢We are excited to share the CfP for our conference "Practices of Public Diplomacy 1500-2000" (18-20 October 2022) 📢see http://bitly.ws/xdxb
#diplomacy #twitterstorians

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PrintDiplomacy/status/1597229072865972230

So pleased to have organized a seminar on #NGO and #Communication for our postgraduate students yesterday. I have presented how #confuciusinstitute mobilized a series of #PublicDiplomacy activities and #narratives in #Africa to forge its image and perception as an NGO.

@Ilan_Manor It’s very interesting in terms of #publicdiplomacy #softpower #nationbranding - for years it’s been argued that countries beyond the West struggle at #softpower and are disadvantaged vs US massive civil society and private sector ability to generate positive branding… Russia subverted and #softpower into new #hatepower which they are rather well equipped at mass producing and distributing

I have a forthcoming book: Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Muslim Identity Politics to Challenge the International Order and Siilence its Critics. It examines Turkey’s expanding #globalcommunication apparatus, its #politicaleconomy, goals and strategies. Instead of solely analyzing the government-backed #communication ventures as tools of #publicdiplomacy, it pays attention to how an #authoritarian non-Western actor can exploits #post-colonial criticism and #counter-hegemony to

Last week’s results of the Nation Brands Index 2022 is fascinating reading for students of #softpower and #publicdiplomacy. The #UK has fallen out of the top 5 for the first time (since the survey began in 2005) and #Russia has dropped an unprecedented 31 places, due to its invasion of #Ukraine (https://www.ipsos.com/en/nation-brands-index-2022)

Hello new world! I teach #diplomacy, #publicdiplomacy and #IRTheory, and I research mainly #learning and #teaching development in my discipline (esp. #placementlearning and online #assessment), although I occasionally do some more traditional research too (e.g., https://brill.com/view/journals/hjd/7/4/article-p369_2.xml?language=en)