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Student Spotlight: Gabrielle Stall

September 18, 2023 Global Communication

By Alexis Posel, IPDGC Communications Assistant 1. Can you tell us a bit about your background (where you’re from and/or grew up) and what brought you to GW? I’m from Dallas, Texas born and raised. I lived there all my life and then went to my undergraduate institution, the University…

Orientation Day activities

September 13, 2023 IPDGC

It was a warm welcome for the incoming graduate students to the Elliott School late last month. The students heard from Dean Alyssa Ayres, met with their Program Directors, and attended sessions with academic advisors, career coaches and student panels. The day ended with a Welcome Reception where the new…

Yasukuni Shrine

April 5, 2023 Asia 12 Comments

By Izzy Angeli, MA Media and Strategic Communication ’23 Historical Context China considers Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine—which honors 2.5 million war deaths, including convicted war criminals—as a symbol of Japan’s wartime militarism. The shrine was founded in 1869 by Emperor Meiji to commemorate Japanese people who lost their lives from the…

Battle of Narratives between Canada and Quebec over immigration and identity

April 5, 2023 North America 6 Comments

By Antoine Morin, GW Exchange Student, Spring 2023 This past month, the normally welcoming and multicultural Canada took the difficult decision toclose Roxham Road – a road that generated extensive media coverage because it was a site ofirregular migration to Canada from the United States. Joe Biden’s visit to Canada…

Strategic Communications and Foreign Policy: A Conversation with an NSC Press Spokesperson

October 31, 2016 Events Global Communication IPDGC No Comments

In a conversation moderated by IPDGC’s program director Janet Steele, National Security Council Press Spokesperson Emily Horne answered questions about her role in the NSC, its media strategy, and elaborated to students about her career path. Students, faculty, and industry professionals attended this event and were invited to join in…

War Fatigue vs. the President’s Syria Strike

October 7, 2013 Middle East No Comments

When President Barack Obama delivered his September 10, 2013 speech on Syria, his policy aim was articulated clearly: after careful deliberation, I determined that it is in the national security interests of the United States to respond to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons through a targeted military strike.…

1 girl 5 gays, MTV Canada, and cultural diplomacy

April 16, 2013 Cultural Diplomacy Global Communication No Comments

by Brad Gilligan Last month, advocates of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights deployed thousands of supporters to the grounds outside the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments in two landmark cases. A Pew Research Center poll demonstrates the dominant frame being deployed by media to tell the story.…

Democracy and 21st Century Statecraft

March 18, 2013 Cultural Diplomacy public diplomacy Social Media 2 Comments

By Rebecca Woodward The recent presidential elections in Kenya served as a platform to showcase mobile technology as a medium for transparent and fair processes in a country troubled by election violence and fraud in the recent past. There are roughly six billion mobile phones in the world, in Kenya…

How Does Cultural Diplomacy Communicate? Let Me Count the Ways

February 7, 2013 Cultural Diplomacy Global Communication in the field public diplomacy 1 Comment

Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Tara Sonenshine, who delivered the annual Walter Roberts Lecture at George Washington University last Thursday, comes from a serious press and media background. She is the recipient of 10 News Emmy Awards and other awards in journalism for broadcast programs…

21st Century Visual Culture, NGOs, and Public Diplomacy

December 20, 2012 Cultural Diplomacy Global Communication public diplomacy 1 Comment

An early Christmas present arrived in the mail today – a new book called Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism (Meg McLagan and Yates McKee, eds., Zone Books, 2012.) The “visual culture of nongovernmental activism” seems like an important topic for U.S. public diplomacy practitioners to consider. Even…