Its members and supporters note that the State Department has requested sharp increases in financing for its "public diplomacy" activities but has been rebuffed by President Bush's budget aides.
Our embassies around the world spend a pretty big chunk of their day to day work on public diplomacy activities, centered around culture, sports, education, technology and media, which attempt to create good impressions of the U.S. among foreign publics.
A much broader array of digital diplomacy activities takes place in thousands of diplomatic negotiations, policy initiatives, and crisis management actions every day worldwide – and they all depend heavily on digital technologies.
Sanctions and diplomacy with covert activity are necessary; there is no evidence right now that we need force or bombs.
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Congress should revamp its committee structures to better integrate defense, diplomacy and development activities.
"I have urged my colleagues to commit to including climate diplomacy in their activities in the run up to COP21 [the Paris summit] – and the EU's foreign service to work more on this.
In the foreign service, for instance, the newly established regional reform program that I headed in Cairo from 2008 through 2011 had to scale down its reform agenda and instead focus on public diplomacy and "dialogue" activities.
Despite a frenzy of activity, Confederate diplomacy was not bearing its anticipated fruits in the nation's first summer.
For all of the sobriety of the occasion, what was occurring offstage both before and after the ceremony was a burst of political activity and diplomacy of great significance for Japan's immediate future, and for the future of this region.
