Statehood for Puerto Rico
By Jowen H. Ortiz Cintrón, MA Media and Strategic Communication, 2022 Three Things that statehooders should fix in their narrative Puerto Rico is not legally a country but is the longest-standing colony in the world that has its own culture and national...
ICC Probe Investigating Israel: The Divergent Narratives Within
By Basil Awartani, M.A. Media & Strategic Communication, 2021 Two years ago, International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced that the court had uncovered evidence of war crimes committed in the West Bank and Gaza by Israel. Based on these initial...
Battle of Narratives in the Fight for Kosovo
By Sydney Booker, MA Media and Strategic Communication, 2021 Kosovo and Serbia have been engaged in a battle of narratives for hundreds of years. In recent years, that battle has entered the world stage. While Serbia holds onto their narrative that Kosovo belongs to...
Dueling Messages: anti-Turkish Narrative and Counter-narrative in the Libyan War
By Richard Outzen, retired U.S. army officer Experts have come to recognize that international competition in the Internet era includes a continuous struggle to define conflicts and outcomes through messaging on social and mass media. When actors define a situation by...
The EU and Russia: Narratives Collide Over Belarus
By Madelyn Berner, MA Global Communication, 2022 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets with EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell. | EFE via EPA The European Union and Russia have long held competing narratives that prohibit the two sides from...
From “Regional Bully” to “Benign Hegemon”
By Saiansha Panangipalli, MA Global Communication, 2021 Projecting India as an Alternative to China The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, an association of the U.S., India, Australia and Japan, is committed to a “free and open Indo-Pacific.” Given that China concerns...
U.S. Pro-Democracy Narratives on Bolivian Coup are Heavily Contested Due to Their Anti-Democratic Results
By Ben Gutman, MA Global Communication ’22 Throughout the Cold War, U.S. presidential administrations and other federal departments weaponized the idea of anti-communism to dominate media frames and discourage dissent. U.S. government officials have successfully...
Building Enduring Networks: The ECA
By Brian O’Rourke Established in 1961, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs works to establish cultural exchanges between the United States and other countries around the world. Through academic, professional, athletic, and artistic exchanges, the ECA...
Re-Constructing Democratic Narratives to Foster Pro-Israel Support in the U.S.
By Nikki Hinshaw, M.A. Global Communication, ’22 Narrative Challenge: Anti-Israel Sentiment [1] in the United States Growing anti-Israel sentiment has appeared globally, including in the United States, over the past few years. While the roots of such sentiment...
Students: a notice about grants for summers internships and the PD Student Award
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