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beyondparallel.csis.org Stephen image fromExcerpt: Ambassador Kathleen Stephens is the president and CEO of the Korea Economic Institute of America. Previously, she served as a career diplomat within the United States Foreign Service from 1978 to 2015. She was the U.S. charge d’affaires in India from 2014 to 2015 and the [JB -- Acting] Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs [JB emphasis] in 2012 [JB -- from February 6 to April 4, 2012] . She served as the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 2008 to 2011. Before moving to Seoul, Ambassador Stephens served in a number of policy positions in Washington, working as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2005 to 2007, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2003 to 2005, the director of the Department of State Office of Ecology and Terrestrial Conservation from 2001 to 2003, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. em..

networks.h-net.org Discussion published by Lauriane Simony on Friday, May 3, 2019 0 Replies The international conference "Cultural diplomacy in the world since 1945: prestige, influence, cooperation" will take place on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th of May 2019 at the Maison de la Recherche de Paris 3 (Room Claude Simon), 4 rue des Irlandais (Paris 5). The conference is organized by Lara Cuny and Lauriane Simony (University Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle) with the support of ED 514, CREW, PRISMES (Paris 3) and LARCA (Paris 7). The programme of the conference is below. In order to attend the conference, please register by sending an e-mail to the organizers: lara.cuny@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr et lauriane.simony@sorbonne-nouvelle.frRegistration is free. We look forward to welcoming you to the conference!Lara Cuny and Lauriane Simony ***Friday 17th May09:00: Registration and coffee09:15: Opening words by Florence Baillet, director of the doctoral school EDEAGE09:30: Guest speaker — Nora Hickey M’Si..

image from whitehouse.gov; issued on: April 29, 2019; Excerpt: Roxanne Cabral of Virginia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Ms. Cabral, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, currently serves as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires at the United States Embassy in Panama. Previously, she was Director of the Office of Policy, Planning, and Resources in the Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] and Public Affairs in the Department of State. Ms. Cabral served as Public Affairs Officer at the United States Consulate General Guangzhou, China, and at the United States Embassy Tirana, Albania. She also served in the Office of South-Central Europe in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in the Department of State, the United States Embassy Mexico City, Mexico, and the United States Embassy Kyiv. Ms. Cabral has a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and Master of ..

scielo.br Revista Brasileira de Política InternacionalPrint version ISSN 0034-7329On-line version ISSN 1983-3121Rev. bras. polít. int. vol.62 no.1 Brasília 2019 Epub Apr 29, 2019http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329201900105 Articles Danielly Silva Ramos Becard1 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4471-1897Paulo Menechelli Filho2 http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1402-265X1 Universidade de Brasília , Instituto de Relações Internacionais , Brasília , Brazil (daniellyr@yahoo.com)2 Universidade de Brasília , Instituto de Relações Internacionais , Brasília , Brazil (prtmfilho@gmail.com) Excerpt: ABSTRACT This article analyzes instruments of Chinese cultural diplomacy (2003-2018), such as the media, cinema, and the Confucius Institutes, as well as its potential to overcome barriers between states. China’s cultural soft power was studied in Confucius Institutes in the U.S.. The conclusion is that China increasingly used cultural diplomacy and turned it into a key instrument in its strategy for international ..

News & Events Series: Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series Speaker: Professor Yasushi Watanabe and Professor Corneliu Bjola Event date: 1 May 2019 Event time:16:00 - 18:00 Venue: Oxford Department of International Development 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB Venue details: Seminar Room 1 Event type: Lectures and seminars Event cost: Free Disabled access?: Yes Booking required: Not required Further information: https://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/node/25539 Amidst the flux of the liberal international order, Japan’s public diplomacy [JB emphasis], which relies solely on its cultural uniqueness, is inadequate. Professor Yasushi Watanabe of Keio University proposes new principles for an age where the diplomatic sphere is expanding from negotiation tactics to agenda setting and norm setting. In this presentation, Professor Watanabe will review the trajectory of Japan’s public diplomacy. its challenges and possibilities, with particular attention to the Tokyo 2020 Games.

eventbrite.com image from entryDate And Time Fri, May 10, 2019 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM EDT Add to Calendar Location Rome Building, Rome Auditorium 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20036 View Map Register [Attendance is] Free Description The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies would like to cordially invite you to attend a conference on Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] in the Asia-Pacific. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Tomohiko Taniguchi, Professor at Keio University and Special Advisor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. From 2005 to 2008 he served as Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy General for Public Diplomacy at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2013 Dr. Taniguchi rejoined the government as a Counselor in the Japanese Cabinet Secretariat. In 2014 he became Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. In this role he assists the Prime Minister with strategic communications. His keynote address will be from 12:30 - 2:00. Notable panelists will in..

USC Center on Public Diplomacy, April 23, 2019; original entry contains a videoIf artificial intelligence (AI) is the future of technology, what's its role in public diplomacy? [JB emphasis]Watch an exclusive video interview with Kyle Matthews, Executive Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University. Matthews spoke to CPD at Diplocamp 2019 during PD Week in Brussels, which convened diplomats, thought leaders, scholars and more to learn and share best practices for how technology is fundamentally shaping the field of public diplomacy."There isn't one AI. ... It really is, people say, a technology that's going to transform the world—it's going to transform economies, it's going to transform international relations, so it's really important that we study this," says Matthews. "We need to build a core group of people in academia, in think tanks and in governments who are going to share best practices an..

USC Center on Public Diplomacy, April 26, 2019 A special edition of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy titled, "Debating Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis]: Now and Next," is now published and available digitally here.Edited by CPD Director Jay Wang and CPD Faculty Fellow Jan Melissen, the collection features 12 essays reflecting on how the evolution of the global information environment presents new challenges for public diplomacy practitioners and academic analysis.“Making sense of what is going on now, and what may be next in public diplomacy, is as relevant for rising powers as it is for declining states," write Melissen and Wang. "It matters to powers big and small, and those in the middle or occupying policy niches, as it does to an array of non-state actors.”This forward-looking issue covers today's critical public diplomacy topics that will only grow more pressing as the field continues to be shaped by the new global media landscape. Contributions include the following chapters b..

Mariami Khatiashvili, The CPD Blog, May 2, 2019 uncaptioned image from article Jazz, as a cultural phenomenon, can comprehensively illustrate U.S. culture and society. As a component of U.S. public diplomacy [JB emphasis], it can reasonably tell an American story to foreign audiences. Since 1956, after the U.S. State Department created the Jazz Ambassadors program, jazz diplomacy not only defined the success of U.S. public diplomacy in the Cold War, but became one of the universal symbols of the United States in the country of Georgia, a Soviet Republic at that time. Until 1978, before the U.S. State Department directed this jazzy instrument of public diplomacy, Georgians experienced the American value of freedom through jazz rhythms.Soviet socialist realism forbade everything Western, especially American, including freedom of pro-Western thinking, and freedom of experiencing U.S. values. Soviet ideology regarded American jazz as “corrupt” and “dissident.” In this case, only high-level..

ACN, Catalan News, May 3, 2019 Diplocat secretary general says body will 'continue' work of officials in charge before Spain shut it down in 2017 ACN, May3| Barcelona Catalonia's Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] Council (Diplocat) has held its first event after the Spanish government closed it down in October 2017 when it took over Catalonia's administration. The consortium hosted a seminar on public diplomacy [JB emphasis] on Friday at Barcelona's old Sant Pau modernist hospital. Talking to the press, secretary general Laura Foraster said the body will "continue" the work of the officials that were in charge before Spain imposed direct rule. According to her, Diplocat's goal is to "export the image, assets and values of Catalonia abroad." She expressed plans to draft a strategic plan with the approximately 40 public and private institutions that make up the consortium. The Catalan government, Barcelona's local council, several universities, trade unio..