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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

For historians/academics interested in Public Diplomacy (a growing "intellectual" cottage industry): Mr. Clean

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True story, recollected as best he can by memory-challenged ex-PD (public diplomacy) Foreign Service officer John Brown Place:  US State ...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Is This George Kennan?

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Is This George Kennan? New York Review of Books, December 8, 2011 Frank Costigliola. Review of George F. Kennan: An American Life by Joh...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

An Excellent Article on "Leveraging Hip Hop in US Foreign Policy"/Public Diplomacy

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Leveraging Hip Hop in US Foreign Policy - Garrison, Anthro | Religion | Media: Musings on the intersection of religion, media, culture, and...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

More on US Laos Rapper-Astronomer-Ambassador in Action: She's "on a high" Performing US Public Diplomacy

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“Jay-Z she is not, but when the U.S. ambassador to Laos [Karen Stewart, a.k.a. MC Karen] took the stage at a music festival in the Laotian ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Interview with US Diplomat Peter Van Buren: Wisdom for American Public Diplomacy

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EXCLUSIVE! JB e-mail interview with US diplomat Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and ...
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Response to yet another unbearable "Barack" ad

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JB response to the below: " Another obscene ad. Get your act together or we'll occupy you! " 5:10 PM Reply ▼Reply Reply...

American Public Diplomacy at Its Most Vulgar

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Vientiane: US Ambassador Stewart Raps at StreetWave05 (VIDEO) See also ( 1 ) and ( 2 ). For a more positive coverage of the Stewart Rap, ...
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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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