Friday, June 24, 2005

U.S. Role & Public Opinion
Much has been made recently about efforts to improve American public diplomacy (Washington Times - Winning the war of ideas). This report in today's New York Times (Poll Shows Modest Changes in Levels of Anti-U.S. Mood) notes that, "The anti-Americanism that surged through much of the world over the war in Iraq shows modest signs of abating, an international opinion poll indicates." What steps would you recommend to improve the image of America abroad?

Monday, June 20, 2005

The Evolution of American Foreign Policy
In "The Course of American Diplomacy: Theonomy, Autonomy, & Heteronomy" Jerry K. Sweeney, a historian at South Dakota State University, uses three philosophical frameworks to trace the course of American foreign policy toward the rest of the world and how it has changed over the past two centuries.