Public diplomacy

Belarus has forced the closure of the U.S. Embassy’s Public Diplomacy and USAID offices in a move that comes amid the tensions with the...

On Monday, the “Generation Z” China-U.S. Youth Dialogue hosted by the China Public Diplomacy Association was held in Malipo County, Yunnan Province. Chinese Ambassador...

Skip to content Leigh Turner Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna Part of UK in Austria 2nd September 2021 Vienna, Austria Diplomatic Lessons 12: Tips for Diplomats and Ambassadors These, however, are parsimonious days… The telegraph has made a difference in the position of Ambassadors. When men can and do receive instructions hourly about the smallest details, and, indeed, ask for them as if anxious to escape responsibility, it is easy to conceive that the Foreign Office will not again insist on the Treasury behaving with boundless liberality. “The Times”, reporting on the debate about rebuilding Pera House, British Embassy in Istanbul, after the fire of 1870. Diplomacy has been in a state of flux for centuries. Who needs diplomats when you have the telegraph/the television/the internet? In Moscow in 1993, to find out the latest on the putsch shaking the city, we turned to the live pictures on CNN..

23 Jul The Rise of Vaccine Diplomacy Posted at 14:09h in Diplomacy & Soft Power, UK Perspectives by Evie Aspinall Last summer, while citizens in Western nations enjoyed a relative reprieve from some of the stricter Covid-19 restrictions, behind the scenes major negotiations were taking place which would determine the course of the pandemic. Wealthier nations raced to place vaccine pre-orders, hoping to be among the first to vaccinate their populations and fully lift restrictions. Fast forward a year, and the majority of adults in Europe, the UK and the United States have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and restrictions are beginning to ease. In contrast, just 1% of citizens in low-income nations have received the first dose of their vaccine, and nations such as Tunisia and Indonesia, which had fared well in the first phase of the pandemic, have now been plunged into emergencies. With the immediate health crisis appearing to become..

HOT TOPIC Gay U.S. Diplomats Still Battle Discrimination Abroad Despite recently won rights at home, LGBTI+ members of the Foreign Service are not welcome in 70 countries. By NICHOLAS KRALEV and LOUIS SAVOIA | JULY 18, 2021 Last month, the U.S. Department of State flew the rainbow flag in front of its main building in Foggy Bottom for the first time. Photo courtesy of the Department of State. More than a decade ago, Victor (not his real name), a U.S. Foreign Service officer then in his 30s, started a tour in a Middle Eastern country. He wanted to bring along his partner, who wasn’t a U.S. citizen. Even though the U.S. government didn’t officially recognize same-sex relationships, the State Department tolerated them. The bigger problem was the host-country, which refused to grant Victor’s partner a visa. Eventually, the U.S. Embassy found a “workaround”: the only way for the couple to be together was for Victor to hire his partner as a “dome..

In today’s digital media environment, how a story is told can be no less important than whether the story is true. Dmitry Chernobrov explores...

The memory of World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as Russia calls it—occupies a cult-like status in Russian popular and political culture. At...

ARGUMENT How to Prepare for Life After a Career in Diplomacy We diplomats often identify with our job, and when we leave, we find ourselves confronting an identity crisis — or even loss of identity. By AMBASSADOR CHARLES RAY | NOVEMBER 29, 2020 As ambassador to Zimbabwe, Charles Ray met with grandmothers running community projects to help pay for their grandchildren’s education in 2012. Photo by U.S. Embassy Harare. An assistant public affairs officer in the United States Army moonlighting as an arts and theater critic for a local newspaper may be a peculiarity, but with proper authorization, I managed to pull it off back in the 1970s, when I was stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C. I also wrote for a state historical society’s publication. One of my crusty old editors advised me to establish a practice of writing at least 1,000 words every day to improve my skills. That habit, which continues to this day, proved essential to a fulfilling post-retirement life decades later. After 20 years..

The Constitution and civic participation in a democracy played an critical role in my career abroad as a public diplomacy foreign service officer for...

The contribution of the Hellenic Diaspora in the forging of bilateral cultural relations between Greece and third countries is the key issue of the...