In a recent speech to the American Security Project, Tara Sonenshine, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, laid out her vision for her tenure in… Read More
An outdated U.S. law adopted in the aftermath of World War II prevents Americans from listening to broadcasts on Voice of America and other taxpayer-supported… Read More
The House Armed Services Committee clearly acted in the U.S. interest when it voted to modernize the Smith–Mundt Act last week, as an amendment to… Read More
Belatedly, last week, the new Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy, Tara Sonenshine, and a bundle of other diplomatic nominees received the Senate stamp of approval. Having… Read More
Challenges to U.S. international broadcasting and public diplomacy continue to mount. Iran, joining China and Russia, also nourishes ambitions as a global power and is… Read More
News flash: “We are in an information war, and we’re losing that war.” This source for this conclusion was not one of the at least… Read More
A recent event at the United States Institute of Peace featured a discussion on the effects of social media, particularly in the Russian blogosphere. The… Read More
If competition is healthy—most conservatives believe it is—the challenge presented by China and other nations in the field of public diplomacy ought to be a… Read More
For an Administration that started with the premise of improving relations with the “Muslim world,” as President Obama likes to put it, the results of… Read More
These days “accountable” is rarely an adjective used to describe the state of American diplomacy. With government waste running rampant, it’s easy to forget that… Read More
