The Role of Public Diplomacy in Support of the Anti-terrorism Campaign: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, October 10, 2001U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001 - 70 pages |
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... interested in our ability to use articles that are in the press - The Washington Post had a very good series of articles about America's generosity to other Muslims in our country . We made sure that such articles were available to all ...
... interested in our ability to use articles that are in the press - The Washington Post had a very good series of articles about America's generosity to other Muslims in our country . We made sure that such articles were available to all ...
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... interested in the impact and any feedback you might have on that . But again , thinking out of the box , has there been any consider- ation given to utilizing the human stories and the experience of Arab Americans in this country given ...
... interested in the impact and any feedback you might have on that . But again , thinking out of the box , has there been any consider- ation given to utilizing the human stories and the experience of Arab Americans in this country given ...
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... interested in . The data that we are collecting is so mind - opening . In this country , the Muslim religion is the fastest growing . They have a 30 percent conversion rate , which suggests they are perfectly free and very successful at ...
... interested in . The data that we are collecting is so mind - opening . In this country , the Muslim religion is the fastest growing . They have a 30 percent conversion rate , which suggests they are perfectly free and very successful at ...
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... interested to hear your com- ments relative to - one of the problems that I think we face in our public relations campaign is that some of our friends - some of our friendly governments in the Middle East may oftentimes be - well , let ...
... interested to hear your com- ments relative to - one of the problems that I think we face in our public relations campaign is that some of our friends - some of our friendly governments in the Middle East may oftentimes be - well , let ...
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... interested in finding out whether the State Department's public diplomacy programs are sen- sitive to the fact that we as a nation need to more than ever acquaint a growing number of our own citizens to the various cultures , languages ...
... interested in finding out whether the State Department's public diplomacy programs are sen- sitive to the fact that we as a nation need to more than ever acquaint a growing number of our own citizens to the various cultures , languages ...
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Afghan agency Al-Jazeera Arab world Assistant Secretary attack audiences BERMAN Board of Governors Broadcasting Board budget bureaus California campaign Chairman HYDE Committee communication Congress critical Department effective embassies exchange programs foreign policy funding ghanistan going hear important Interview with Taleban Islam Kenton Keith Korologos Lantos leaders Middle East Middle East broadcasting Muslim NATHANSON Office of Program One-on-One with Taleban opportunity Osama bin Laden overseas Pakistan Pashtun PREPARED STATEMENT President pro-Taleban problem Program Review public diplomacy public diplomacy efforts Radio Free Afghanistan Radio Free Asia Radio Free Europe Radio Shariat reach region reports Richard Boucher Rohrabacher ROYCE Secretary Beers Secretary for Public September 11 Taleban Ambassador Taleban Deputy Taleban Foreign Minister Taleban Minister Taleban spokesman terrorism terrorists Thank truth U.S. international broadcasting understand United USIA VOA Pashto Service VOA's Voice of America World Trade Center
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Page 5 - To be persuasive we must be believable ; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.
Page 11 - Jersey for his opening statement. [The prepared statement of Mr. Royce follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE EDWARD R. ROYCE, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMITTEE ON AFRICA WASHINGTON...
Page 59 - ... a very broad range of countries, in an arc reaching from Africa to the Middle East, stretching further eastward from Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia. Addressing so many countries and cultures will demand thoughtfully differentiated approaches to public diplomacy. In some countries, significant increases in our traditional exchanges, such as the Fulbright and International Visitor programs, will be appropriate, welcome, and effective. In other countries, such an approach...
Page 16 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee : I am delighted to appear before you today to discuss aspects of the world energy supply situation.
Page 2 - As Americans, we are justly proud of our country. If any nation has been a greater force for good in the long and tormented history of this world, I am unaware of it. We have guarded whole continents from conquest, showered aid on distant lands, sent thousands of youthful idealists to remote and often inhospitable areas to help the world's forgotten. Why, then, when we read or listen to descriptions of America in the foreign press, do we so often seem to be entering a fantasyland of hatred?
Page 58 - People-to-people ties are an essential part of our public diplomacy. As Ambassador Arthur Bums once said, "The achievement ... of true understanding between any two governments depends fundamentally on the kind of relationship that exists between the peoples, rather than on the foreign ministers and ambassadors.
Page 3 - How is it that the country that invented Hollywood and Madison Avenue has allowed such a destructive and parodied image of itself to become the intellectual coin of the realm overseas?
Page 1 - Today, as we strike against the terrorists who masterminded the murder of thousands of Americans, our actions are widely depicted in the Muslim world as a war against Islam. Our efforts at self-defense, which should be supported by every decent person on this planet, instead spark riots that threaten governments that dare to cooperate with us. How is it that the country that invented Hollywood and Madison Avenue has such trouble promoting a positive image of itself overseas?
Page 55 - Prior to taking up my current positions, I was a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Information Agency. Much of my career was spent in the Middle East, including my appointment by President Bush in 1992 to be US Ambassador to Qatar. Following that assignment, I headed USIA's area office that supervised all the agency's operations in the Near East and South Asia. More recently, I took on a temporary assignment for the State Department during which I established and directed the Coalition...
Page 53 - American national security community focused on what was called the question of the "second shoe." No one believed that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an isolated occurrence.