I am happy to answer your interesting questions. I feel it is an essential thing for the well-being of our society that students like yourself understand propaganda.
1. What interested you in propaganda rather than another subject?I grew up in the UK in the later 1960s and 1970s loving old movies and fascinated by history, especially World War II. I loved...
George H. W. Bush understood diplomacy. He knew that it could not be conducted by bluster and edict. He knew that effective foreign policy is intrinsically complex and does not lend itself to simplistic messaging. He knew that the United States—even as the world’s most powerful nation—would need to nurture alliances to reach its global goals.
There is much to be learned from the ways...
Today, the threat and danger of violent extremism — whether foreign or domestic — is far more challenging than it has ever been. The unpredictable nature of violent extremism enables it not to be restricted to a single race, gender, religion, culture, country or even an ideology.
In the 21st century, the notion of violent extremism has expressed how volatile its adherents are in the...
Recently, the world’s two biggest economies, the United States and China, have an unsettled feeding frenzy over their economic relations, resulting in a spiral of retaliations. What started as imposing new taxes on certain Chinese goods by America, has escalated to a trade war triggered by a chain of tariffs from both sides. While it may not be clear as to why such hostility has started—nor if...
Public Diplomacy Magazine has just released its Summer/Fall 2018 issue on border diplomacy.
Border diplomacy is a critical and timely topic as immigration debates run hot both within the U.S. and throughout the world. From asylum-seekers encountering family separation at the U.S. border to refugees from many countries seeking new homes in Europe, border diplomacy is crucial for finding...
Master of Public Diplomacy students Justin Chapman ’19, Alison DeGuide ’18 and Madison Jones ’18 organized the annual international second year roving conference to Iceland. There they met with Icelandic government officials to discuss the country’s place branding efforts. In the blog post, “ Branding the Land of Ice...
From March 12 to March 16, 2018 first-year Master’s of Public Diplomacy students flew to Washington, D.C. to conduct the annual Roving Conference. There, the students organized over a dozen meetings with high-level practitioners of public diplomacy in both the public and private sectors in order to receive insight and advice about their positions in the field. They met with Congressman Adam...
In 2018, Annenberg International Programs took a group of students to Thailand for an alternative spring break trip in order to learn about corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the country. This program brought together students from various undergraduate and graduate programs in Annenberg programs, including...