Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The US-Public Diplomacy as perceived by Karen Hughes


In the interview with Karen Hughes I was first very impressed by the way they used sport for targeting a special audience. Public diplomacy is used by employing sports. Cal Ripken first stated that because of different languages it is impossible to communicate with Chinese people for example, but while putting them in soccer filed it become easier to communicate and exchange. Sport is considered as universal.
Additionally, we can talk about the role that Karen Hughes had made for public diplomacy in US. She brought a definition of it and tried to use dialogue as tool of communication with the other part of the world as German even if US don’t use the concept of dialogue correctly since they just it is a ONE way communication.
There is also the point of liberalization and occupation in Iraq, since Us say that they were in Iraq to liberalise it from Sadam, but now that Sadam died what do they still do their? Hughes stated that public diplomacy play a major role to combat terrorist after the 11 september. So USA tries to share it culture with the whole world and give a positive image in a universal scale.

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