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Spanish Ambassador to Korea Juan Ignacio Morro, koreaherald.com image from article : Spanish Constitution of 1978 Since the historic day, the supreme law has united all Spanish citizens, and launched Spain’s journey as an open, modern and inclusive country. Over the last four decades, Spain has established itself as a democratic state based on the rule of law. We have deeply committed ourselves to the European project as a European Union member state since 1986, prioritizing the European principles and values of democracy along the way. Furthermore, Spain has become a welfare state offering universal health care and education, and a world leader championing equality, human rights and international solidarity. Today we take pride in ourselves for many reasons. Spain has one the highest levels of democratic quality in the world. We have achieved remarkable results in territorial decentralization and regional self-governance. We are home to different cultures and languages and diverse gro..

Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Excerpt (no. 8 on the list) 8. China’s Re-education Camps Test International ToleranceImage from article: A protester takes part in a march of ethnic Uyghurs around the European Union in Brussels in April 2018. The demonstraters [JB - sic] were asking the European Union to call upon China to respect human rights in the Chinese Xinjiang region and to close 're-education centres' where Uyghurs are detained. | Image: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty The recent development of “re-education camps” in China’s outlying Xinjiang region to detain large numbers of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities has provoked international condemnation and exacerbated ethnic tensions in the autonomous mountain region.These camps are part of China’s “strike hard against violent terrorism” campaign, which is bristling with mass surveillance infrastructure and digital policing technologies mounted to contain the religious beliefs and behaviours of ethnic minorities. Despite a..

fdrfoundation.org Posted on December 1, 2018 by Jed Willard in Past Events uncaptioned image from article Are foreign powers working to influence domestic public opinion? Do their approaches differ from political parties? From each other? Come join Will Stevens, Director of the Public Diplomacy Division, Foreign Service Institute (U.S. Department of State), for a discussion of the practice of public diplomacy, globally, today. Will will focus on “Adversarial Narratives” and their use by states, non-state actors, and domestic political parties. He’ll also speak about his work training U.S. diplomats to represent the United States in challenging times, American influence around the world, and how public diplomacy intersects with disinformation, social media, and Hybrid/Gray Zone warfare. Open to the extended Harvard community, including all Harvard schools, alumni, and neighboring universities This event is part of the “Misinformation Speaker Series,” and is co-sponsored by the Shorens..

Bharath Gopalaswamy, atlanticcouncil.org image (not from entry) fromExcerpt: The Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center convened policymakers, analysts, and diplomats to assess the gaps in and imminent challenges facing the US strategy in Afghanistan. In a resulting report, “A Review of President Trump’s South Asia Strategy: The Way Ahead, One Year In,” these experts provide some important recommendations to the administration. ... 1) Demonstrate US strategic patience and commitment. The Trump administration needs to make clear to its partners its commitment to Afghanistan. The world needs to hear from the highest levels of the administration what the United States and its partners intend to achieve in Afghanistan and what a long-term strategy looks like. At present, US partners are left with the feeling that Washington is only interested in a short-term solution that will allow it to declare victory and exit Afghanistan. This belief needs to be dispelled. ... 3) Implement an active publ..

Wikipedia [JB personal note: John L. Brown, my father, was a diplomat and also a poet (first?)] image (not from entry) fromExcerpt:Poet-diplomats are poets who have also served their countries as diplomats. The best known poet-diplomats are perhaps Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Wyatt; the category also includes recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ivo Andrić, Gabriela Mistral, Saint-John Perse,[1]Miguel Ángel Asturias, Pablo Neruda, George Seferis, Czesław Miłosz and Octavio Paz.[2][3][4]Contemporary poet-diplomats include Abhay K,[5]Indran Amirthanayagam, Kofi Awoonor,[6][7] Philip McDonagh[8] and Yiorgos Chouliaras.[9] ...Abhay Kumar wrote, "There seems to be a connection between poetry and diplomacy as several diplomats over the ages have excelled in poetry".[10] He further adds, "Diplomacy is a complex art that involves the mixing of political acumen, cultural finesse, language abilities and conversation skills to wield the power of persuasion. Diplomacy is generally conducte..

devex.com; original article contains links Image and caption from article: Representative Ed Royce, outgoing chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Photo by: CSUF / CC BY-NC-SA Excerpt:His father’s experience had a profound impact on Royce, who is retiring from U.S. Congress after serving as a Republican representative from California for 26 years, the last six of which he was chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “The pictures of that concentration camp, the images there, the lesson of what happens when the U.S. is not engaged, the lesson of what happens during a period of isolationism, as was our policy at the time, and then all hell breaks loose,” Royce said recently at a U.S. Global Leadership Coalition event. “The lesson of the cost of that in human lives — 6 million Jews in those camps and 50 million others around this globe who lost their lives — teaches you the importance of a focus on human rights, on human freedom, on the support for the infrastructure of..

Andreas Sandre, medium.com images from the "best of" list cited in article It is that time of the year to compile “best of” lists and make an assessment on where we are and where we’re heading. Excerpt: Year after year, the world of digital diplomacy evolves and adapts quite fast. New trends form, best practices are set, and new actors emerge. However, content and behaviors of world leaders, governments, and political figures tend to overwhelm the news cycle and timelines obfuscate a bit what happens on the policy side of digital diplomacy. In 2018, social media is still the most visible side of digital diplomacy — a fact that is reflected in this very 2018 in review list: a lot has been said about the use of Twitter by U.S. president Donald Trump; about occasional viral content on social media platforms; live videos and selfies; and new best practices and inspiring moments. This list only mentions a few examples. But foreign policy, not just public diplomacy [JB emphasis] and diplomat..

Susan Crabtree, freebeacon.com, November 30; via GG on linkedin Critics: Bill would protect Obama holdovers at VOA, other entities Image from article: Sens. Bob Corker and Bob Menendez / Getty Images Susan Crabtree November 30, 2018 5:00 am Outgoing Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) is teeing up another parting shot to President Trump by facilitating an effort to undermine his choice to lead the nation's taxpayer-funded global broadcasting operation, according to several GOP sources. The same day Corker rebuked Trump by supporting a bill forcing the United States to withdraw from Yemen, the vocal Trump critic quietly held a Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote approving a bill that would greatly curtail the power of Michael Pack, the incoming new head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, or USAGM. Corker, who is retiring at the end of the year, and Sen. Bob Menendez, (D., N.J.), who sponsored the bill, are rushing the bill through committee this week in an effort to attach it to the..

tohoku.ac.jp; article contains additional illustrations A monument commemorating the Korean poet Kim Kirim was unveiled on the grounds of Tohoku University's [JB - see] Katahira Campus on November 30. Some 60 people joined President Hideo Ohno for the ceremony, including officials from the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Consulate-General of the Republic of Korea in Sendai, and groups related to exchange between Japan and Korea. Kim, whose real name is Kim Inson, was a student at Tohoku University's Department of English Literature. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Letters in 1939. Upon returning to Korea, he began writing poetry while working as a journalist and an academic. He is best known as a modernist poet and critic whose work was heavily inspired by T.S. Eliot and I.A. Richards. At the unveiling ceremony, President Ohno described the monument as a recognition of the many Koreans who have come to Tohoku University over the years, and ..