John Brown's Notes and Essays

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Ten Reasons Why We Don't Need an Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

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Note: A slightly updated version of the below (but without the links) appeared on The Huffington Post 1. Nobody with a normal jaw can pronou...
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Monday, February 9, 2009

The Pause That Refreshes: Some Thoughts on Obama and Public Diplomacy

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The Pause That Refreshes: Some Thoughts on Obama and Public Diplomacy John Brown Persons interested in foreign affairs -- among them the dis...
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Friday, December 5, 2008

Thoughts on the so-called "War of Ideas"

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"No matter how powerful our military is, we will not be powerful if we lose the war of ideas." --Senator Joe Biden, soon after 9/1...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

Want to join the Foreign Service? Advice from a "public diplomacy" diplomat

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Dear Ms. [...]: ... I'll try to answer your question re preparing to join the Foreign Service [FS] as best I can: 1. Don't daydream ...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

US Public Diplomacy/ Obama America's "image" in world: an important article

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http://www.prwatch.org/blog/1781 Judith Siers-Poisson's blog Black man, black woman, black baby /White man, white woman, white baby /Whi...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Islam and the West: The Myth of the Green Peril: Not be Missed for US Public Diplomacy

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Islam and the West: The Myth of the Green Peril November 5, 2008 by Leon Hadar, Antiwar.com The 9/11 attacks and the ensuing "war on te...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Message from Harry C Blaney III

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Dear John, I think we have an extraordinary opportunity to not only "rejuvenate" public diplomacy but also help reshape it for the...
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John Brown
A Princeton PhD, was a U.S. diplomat for over 20 years, mostly in Central/Eastern Europe, and was promoted to the Senior Foreign Service in 1997. After leaving the State Department in 2003 to express strong reservations about the planned U.S. invasion of Iraq, he shared ideas with Georgetown University students on the tension between propaganda and public diplomacy. He has given talks on "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United" to participants in the "Open World" program. Among Brown’s many articles is his latest piece, “Janus-Faced Public Diplomacy: Creel and Lippmann During the Great War,” now online. He is the compiler (with S. Grant) of The Russian Empire and the USSR: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Materials in the United States (also online). In the past century, he served as an editor/translator of a joint U.S.-Soviet publication of archival materials, The United States and Russia: The Beginning of Relations,1765-1815. His approach to "scholarly" aspirations is poetically summarized by Goethe: "Gray, my friend, is every theory, but green is the tree of life."
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