Helle C. Dale is the Heritage Foundation's senior fellow in public diplomacy. Her work focuses on the U.S. government’s institutions and programs for strategic outreach to the public of foreign countries, as well as more traditional diplomacy. Read her research.
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Syria remains a holdout in the Middle East against the forces of popular discontent. The regime of Bashar al-Assad has so far stayed in power… Read More
President Obama got his hand slapped when he famously stretched it out to the Iranian regime in the early days of his presidency. Now the… Read More
Don’t say the wheels of government always spin slowly. When there is an agenda at work, they can move with considerable speed, and in the… Read More
After President Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009, U.S. embassies around the world apparently felt that foreigners still did not know enough about… Read More
Whatever became of President Barack Obama’s vaunted foreign policy czars, who were to transform America’s international relations through soft power diplomacy? The answer is nothing… Read More
China has the dubious distinction of being one of the most controlled information environments in the world. Yet even China’s army of censors can at times… Read More
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In its never-ending efforts to be hip, the U.S. State Department last week launched a new Web site called “Discover Diplomacy.” It has video clips,… Read More
Political and technological changes have a history of going hand in hand. Technology empowers individuals to overcome their isolation and connect to share ideas, information,… Read More
Of the countries that present the greatest foreign policy challenges to the U.S. and will do so in the decades to come, China has to… Read More
Sometimes the writing on the wall is 10 feet tall, and you have to be willfully blind not to see it. The September attack on… Read More
