Tag: propaganda

Revisiting Holocaust Liberation: Paradoxical Propaganda?

February 13, 2015 public diplomacy 1 Comment
In the introduction to his article, “The Paradoxes of Propaganda,” John Brown discusses a rather famous Nazi-era film—widely considered to be propaganda—called Triumph of the Will. Propaganda is one of those terms that often get lumped in with public diplomacy, but in fact there are key differences, both in their…

Eye of the Beholder: Special Force 2 and the Propaganda Game

March 26, 2013 Middle East No Comments
“All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably proaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda… when artists or art critics make the assertion that art excludes propaganda, what they are saying is that their kind of propaganda is art, and other kinds of propaganda are not art. Orthodoxy is…

Nation-building, COIN, and Communication

September 26, 2012 Global Communication Middle East No Comments
Yale’s Keith Darden and The George Washington University’s Harris Mylonas have an interesting piece in the current issue of Ethnopolitics (currently ungated) proposing a new way of thinking about nation- and state-building, and, by extension, counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy. They argue that third-party powers (think: the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan)…