Does State Care if Russia Cheats on Nuclear Weapons or Not?
The State Department is sorely upset about July 28 headlines in The Washington Post and The Washington Times about a recent Department report on Russian… Read More
The State Department is sorely upset about July 28 headlines in The Washington Post and The Washington Times about a recent Department report on Russian… 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
Since 1948, Cold War legislation has been tying the hands of practitioners of U.S. public diplomacy and international broadcasting. The law in question is the… Read More
Secretary of State Clinton’s congratulatory message to Venezuela on its independence day reflects the State Department’s continued inability to craft a coherent strategy for Venezuela…. Read More
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that ten people have been arrested for being alleged undercover Russian spies. They were charged with conspiracy… Read More
In its ongoing search for solutions to U.S. public diplomacy challenges – some might call it a deficit – the State Department has launched yet… Read More
Among the slew of strategy documents from the Obama administration this spring, full of academic analysis and verbal flourishes, Congress has rightly detected a certain… Read More
The roll out of the administration’s first National Security Strategy this week has been a classic exercise in strategic communication, Obama style – a highly… Read More
To fund or not to fund – the State Department’s Hamlet like approach to Internet freedom. Having unequivocally declared Internet freedom one of the Obama… Read More
Within a span of almost 6 months, there have been two near-miss terror attacks on U.S. soil—the Christmas Day plot and Saturday’s Times Square attempted… Read More