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Partnering with the Smithsonian: Seriously Amazing
“Seriously Amazing,” the Smithsonian Institution’s youth-oriented Q&A website ~ While many State Department officers have worked closely with Smithsonian experts over the years, the creation of a...
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21st Century Visual Culture, NGOs, and Public Diplomacy
An early Christmas present arrived in the mail today – a new book called Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism (Meg McLagan and Yates McKee, eds., Zone Books, 2012.) The...
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How Does Cultural Diplomacy Communicate? Let Me Count the Ways
Opportunities to Engage: U.S. senior diplomat Robert Jackson with Casablanca high school research team members (Morocco’s Earth Day Network Fair, 2010) Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and...
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Denmark’s Green Vision
The following reading is from Take Five’s new Student Perspective series. Graduate students studying Cultural Diplomacy as Communication at the George Washington University are encouraged to think...
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Democracy and 21st Century Statecraft
Tallying election results with the aid of cellphones in Kenya By Rebecca Woodward The recent presidential elections in Kenya served as a platform to showcase mobile technology as a medium for...
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Harlem Shake: Arab Spring Protest Edition
by Kate Shriver First, there was Gangam Style, the epic YouTube video by South Korean pop sensation Psy that swept the world in 2012 and currently has over one billion views, making it the most viewed...
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Confronting Development Challenges with Celebrity [Chef] Diplomacy
Some of José Andrés’ more than 100,000 twitter followers congratulate him on being named an “Ambassador of the Spanish Brand.” by Max Entman In the last decade, the definition of cultural diplomacy has...
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Beauty Pageants as an Environmental Public Diplomacy Platform
by Katherine Cincotta The Miss Earth Pageant: A prime example of cultural diplomacy used to increase awareness of environmental issues, or a standard beauty pageant that only pays lip service to...
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Cultural Diplomacy and non-government organizations: Who is a diplomat?
As J. Michael Waller (editor) notes in The Public Diplomacy Reader, the definition of public diplomacy has evolved over time and people view it in different ways. The link between all these...
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1 girl 5 gays, MTV Canada, and cultural diplomacy
by Brad Gilligan Last month, advocates of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights deployed thousands of supporters to the grounds outside the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments in...
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Should We Even Be Studying Public Diplomacy?
by Anna-Lena Tepper Former NBA player Dennis Rodman’s recent visit to North Korea came to many as a surprise. Along with an entourage of fellow basketball players from the performance group Harlem...
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Beyond Zero Sum Cultural Diplomacy
By Max Entman In a recent speech at the 2012 Institute for Cultural Diplomacy conference, former Canadian Minister of Foreign Trade Stockwell Day argues that cultural diplomacy can be used to advance...
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India and Africa Building Ties through Youth Populations
India: the world’s most populous democratic country with one of the largest economies. Africa: a largely developing continent attempting to work itself out of vast poverty and violent conflicts. Both...
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Why Should Diplomats Care About Cultural Sites and Objects?
Credit: U.S. Department of State NBC news carried an interesting story last week highlighting a decision by the U.S. Department of State to return a million-dollar cultural artifact to Iran that had...
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Policy Makes History Present (Or, “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.”–...
This is the fourth in a series of posts on life, culture, and politics in the U.S. and E.U. by Robert Entman, who spent 2012 as a Humboldt Research Prize Scholar at Freie Universität in Berlin. Read...
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Why Public Diplomacy Should Be (Even More) Local
São Paulo is the ninth largest city in the world and the largest in South America. Photo credit: KLM Last week, Rodrigo Tavares wrote in Foreign Affairs about Brazil’s recent involvement in...
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Public Diplomacy on the Front Lines of U.S. Foreign Policy
Kamran (actor Najebullah Sadiq) is the hardened but principled veteran police officer on Eagle Four, an Afghan TV show that its creators hope will have a positive effect on Afghans’ attitudes toward...
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UNESCO and the US: Politics and Culture at the Water’s Edge
UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. Source: Reuters via ibtimes.com Earlier this month, the U.S. lost its voting rights in UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization,...
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Nuts! A Missed PD Opportunity!
Released on January 17, the film is about a squirrel on a mission to break and enter a nut store for the winter. Credit: Redrover Co., Ltd. (2013) I took my kids this weekend to see the latest...
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A Tribute to Shirley Temple Black, the Ultimate Public Diplomat
Editor’s note: Shirley Temple, famed former child actress, died this past Monday. I met Shirley Temple when she was Ambassador to Czechoslovakia in the late 1980s at the embassy in Prague. She was...
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