November 30, 2010
by Elise Crane
Aside from any “freedom of information” considerations or speculation about Assange’s motivations, this act shatters diplomatic trust that has been painstakingly built over time. As Ambassador Rugh said today in the public diplomacy seminar, this will hugely influence how our diplomatic partners see us; even our allies may become quite reluctant to disclose critical facts, [...]
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November 10, 2010
by Elise Crane
Frank Rich’s November 6th New York Times column (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/opini … ef=general) deplored President Obama’s trip to India as a tremendous domestic PR failure in the wake of his midterm “shellacking”. Rich painted the president as either oblivious—or indifferent—to the “optics” of his decision to visit the very country that, due to outsourcing, many see as the [...]
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