Afghanistan’s Water Crisis
On March 17th, 2017 the Trump Administration put forth its first budget outline. Along with beefing up military spending and cutting back on government size, this initial budget asks for a 28 percent, or $10.9 billion, cut to the State Department’s funding and...
Crisis Management for Covert Disclosures: A Public Diplomacy Perspective
This is the second of a two-part series on intelligence leaks and public diplomacy. Read part one here. According to Pew, in 2013—before the Snowden leaks—81 percent of Germans believed the United States respected the rights of its citizens. After the leaks that...
Public Diplomacy Can Address Israel’s Crisis of Credibility Among U.S. Millenials
American millenials are increasingly viewing Israel negatively despite the strong relationship between the two countries. Public diplomacy by the Israeli government is demonstrably insufficient and Israel must respond to criticisms from the world community...
4 Tactics for PA, PD, and Principal Officers on Twitter
Both public affairs (PA) and public diplomacy (PD) officers have the privilege of representing a greater principal actor in whatever position they hold. This was the case with President Obama, having Samantha Powers one of his PD officers, and Josh Earnest as...
Clean water should be a priority for the State Department
Pictured is a Darfurian woman using a water roller to bring water back to her household from a well Courtesy of UNAMID ©️2011 http://tinyurl.com/lb6wqsj We all know that water is essential for life. Living in a developed country, many may forget how challenging it is...
Why ISIS is Winning
With an estimated 27,000 foreign fighters joining the Islamic State and its cause, one can’t help but wonder: what is the driving force behind the support? This article aims to provide an answer, as well as a solution to the underlying problem. What is ISIS?...
Russian Propaganda: The Soviet Zombie Returns From the Grave
Truth may be the weight of history but it is never consistently the force that shapes it.
Selling Climate Change Action to Foreign Skeptics in the Trump Era
Energy, infrastructure, transport, land use, industry, and finance: the New Climate Institute released a report on April 10th detailing the mandatory steps that the world must take by 2020 to avoid a climate disaster. 2020, according to experts, must highlight the...
Guarding Our Children: Strategies for Protecting Youth From the Lure of ISIS
Terrorist organizations know no boundaries. This becomes especially evident in the recruitment of children. Deemed “cubs of the caliphate,” child soldiers are integrated into the same military ranks as adults. Their recruitment happens with and without parent...
Global Health Diplomats: An Antidote for Violent Extremism
Several weeks after 9/11, the world, once again, watched in horror as a series of anthrax-tainted packages mailed to two U.S. Democratic Senators killed five civilians. Since the deadly attacks, numerous U.S. government efforts such as the Joint FBI-CDC Criminal and...
