Category: Bruce Gregory’s Resource List

Coming Events:

Friday, September 12, 7:00 – 9:00 pm — “Clash of Civilizations or Common Ground: A Town Hall on U.S.-Islamic World Relations.” The George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E Street, NW, Room 213.

Speakers:
Hafez Al-Mirazi, Washington Bureau Chief, Al-Jazeera Television
Husain Haqqani, Visiting Scholar, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Karl Inderfurth, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Elliott School
William Nash, John Vessey Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Sponsors: The Elliott School of International Affairs, GWU; The Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution; Dialogues: Islamic World~US~The West; and Americans for Informed Democracy.

No RSVP Required

Friday, September 19, 9:30 – 4:00, “The Military and the Media — Ready for Prime Time in the Next Conflict.” National Defense University, Marshall Hall, Fort McNair, Washington, DC.

Visit NDU’s website for information on panelists and topics. Registration fee: $30

Friday, September 19, 6:00 – 7:30 — Voice of America Exhibit Opening at George Washington University. School of Media and Public Affairs, 805 21st Street, NW. (H and 21st St., NW)

Voice of America and the Radio History Society have collaborated to install a VOA exhibit at the entrance to The George Washington University’s Jack Morton Auditorium (home of CNN’s Crossfire).

RSVP by Sept. 17 at use@gwu.edu or by phone at (202) 994-0779.

Public Diplomacy Council members in print and online:

John H. Brown. “The Tangled Tale of 1,000 Iraqi Schools,” The Washington Post, August 31, 2003. John looks at contrasting official announcements on improving Iraq’s schools.

John compiles a daily “Public Diplomacy Press Review” available free of charge via e-mail. He can be reached at johnhbrown30@hotmail.com.

Steven Livingston. “Diplomacy in the New Information Environment,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Summer/Fall 2003, pp 111-116. Steve analyzes challenges to diplomats and policymakers from two principal sources: (1) new information technologies that create a more transparent information environment and (2) political advocacy organizations that use these technologies, often in collaboration with media, to advocate policy positions.

Dell Pendergrast. “Letters to the Editor,” The Atlantic Monthly, September, 2003. Dell’s letter applauds much of Robert Kaplan’s July cover story, “Supremacy by Stealth,” takes issue with Kaplan’s assertion about USIA’s demise, and discusses the value and neglect of public diplomacy.

Available now in print and soon at AtlanticOnline. 

Other materials of interest:

Al Jazeera.net. Al Jazeera’s English language website is now online.

Giovanna Barradori. Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003). Vassar College philosopher Barradori interviewed Habermas and Derrida in New York shortly after 9/11. These interviews, accompanied by her lucid critical essays, address key questions for public diplomacy. “Is the political and philosophical notion of dialogue, so crucial to every diplomatic strategy, a universal tool of communication? Or is dialogue a culturally specific practice?” “. . . [U]nder what circumstances is dialogue a feasible option?” “What are we to do with the question of tolerance?” “As more avenues of global participation are opening up, why does the threshold of tolerance seem to recede?” “Is the affluent First World honest in presenting and promoting itself as tolerant?”

Manuel Castells. “Manuel Castells to Join USC Annenberg Faculty.” Renowned communications scholar Castells, author of the landmark trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, joins USC Annenberg this fall. In an email interview Castells discusses his recent research and looks ahead at information age trends.

Maia Jachimowicz. “Foreign Students and Exchange Visitors,” Migration Policy Institute, September 1, 2003. Describes the foreign student and exchange visitor population in the U.S. and recent policy developments affecting them. (Courtesy of Ellen Frost)

John Maxwell Hamilton and Eric Jenner. “The New Foreign Correspondence,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 2003, pp. 131-138. Hamilton and Jenner discuss ways in which the Internet has opened the international news market to a broader, more active audience, how technologies are changing the production and consumption of news, and changes in the traditional model of foreign correspondence. (Courtesy of Dan Kuehl)

Charles Layton. “Miller Brouhaha,” American Journalism Review, August/September 2003. AJR contributing editor Layton takes a long look at New York TImes journalist Judith Miller’s reporting on the search for WMD in Iraq, critical coverage of Miller’s reporting by other journalists and news organizations, Miller’s defense of her reporting, uses of her stories by Bush Administration officials in making the public case for war, Miller’s experiences as an embedded reporter in Iraq, and deficiencies in overall media coverage of the WMD issue.

Mark Lynch. “Taking Arabs Seriously,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 2003, pp. 81-94. Williams College professor Mark Lynch argues the Bush Administration’s “tone deaf” approach to the Middle East “reflects a dangerous misreading of Arab public opinion.” Contains thoughtful assessments of the independent media outlets that are transforming the region and and how U.S. public diplomacy should engage the”new Arab public sphere.”

Dana Milbank and Claudia Deans. “Hussein Link to 9/11 Lingers in Many Minds,” The Washington Post, September 6, 2003. Examines U.S. public opinion, the deep distrust of Saddam Hussein, and what some observers see as exploitation by the Bush Administration communicators of an implied a link between Hussein and the events of 9/11.

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Online. “Blair Government’s Row with the BBC,” Terence Smith interviews New York Times London Bureau Chief Warren Hoge, August 28, 2003.

To receive e-mail notices of Terence Smith media pieces scheduled to appear on the NewsHour, send a message to listserv@pbs.org <mailto:listserv@pbs.org> with the following line in the body of the message: subscribe mediawatch-d

Jay Rosen. “Terms of Authority,”Columbia Journalism Review, September/October, 2003. Rosen, chair of the journalism department at NYU and author of What Are Journalists For? examines changes in relationships between publics and the authority of elite journalism resulting from increased global interactivity.

U.S. General Accounting Office, U.S. Public Diplomacy: State Department Expands Efforts but Faces Significant Challenges, September 2003. Two years in the making, this 74-page report contains findings and recommendations on (1) State’s PD resources and programs, (2) whether State has an overall strategy for its PD programs, (3) how State measures PD effectiveness, and (4) other significant challenges in executing PD programs.

U.S. General Accounting Office. U.S. International Broadcasting: New Strategic Approach Focuses on Reaching Large Audiences but Lacks Measurable Program Objectives, July 2003. This 54-page study examines: (1) the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ marketing strategy and program objectives, (2) recent initiatives (Radio Sawa, Radio Farda, and Afghanistan Radio Network), (3) whether BBG has adequately addressed how many language services it can carry effectively, and (4) levels of overlap and duplication in VOA and surrogate services.

Matt Welch. “Blog World and its Gravity” and “Media Go Blogging,” Columbia Journalism Review, September, 2003. CJR’s cover story assesses the emerging world of weblogs, compares them with traditional “alternative” media, and looks at how some big media, broadcast and print, see openings and opportunities in blogs.

David Zarefsky. Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning. Northwestern University professor Zarefsky offers 24 lectures on “communication that seeks to persuade others through reasoned judgment.” Available for purchase or rent (audio and/or video) from [www.teach12.com The Teaching Company]. Tel: 1-800-832-2412

Public Diplomacy Council Members in Print and on the Web

Wilson Dizard, Jr. “Telling America’s Story,” American Heritage, August/September, 2003. With anecdotes, pictures, and the perspective of 30 years in USIA, Wilson looks at the Agency’s mission and continuing influence.

Wilson Dizard, Jr. “Remembering USIA,” Foreign Service Journal, July/August, 2003. A retrospective on the occasion of the Agency’s 50th anniversary. Available online in pdf format.

Princeton Lyman. Interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, online consulting editor for the Council on Foreign Relations, cfr.org, July 14, 2003. Lyman, the Council’s Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies, discusses President Bush’s July 8-12 trip to Africa, Liberia, and requests from U.N. and African leaders for American peacekeepers.

Sherry Mueller and William Rugh. Panelists at the Heritage Foundation Forum, “Regaining America’s Voice Overseas,” July 10, 2003. Other participants included Seth Cropsey, Edwin J. Feulner Jr., Alan Heil, Mark Helmke, and Steve Johnson. Available on Real Audio/Real Video at the Heritage website.

A print version of Sherry’s remarks on exchanges, the International Visitor program, and the April 16 PD Forum Sustaining Exchanges While Securing Borders is available on request in MS Word.

Other Books, Articles, and Websites

Anne Applebaum. “Parallel Universes,” The Washington Post, July 23, 2003. Looking at coverage of Tony Blair’s speech to Congress, Applebaum argues media in different cultures reflect “alternative versions of reality” not just different opinions on the news — with consequences for how we think about globalized information and “real time” information.

Council on Foreign Relations. “Embedded Journalists in Iraq: Reality TV or Desert Mirage?” July 29, 2003. Moderated by New York Times Pentagon correspondent Thomas Shanker. Panelists: Lt. Col. Richard Long, Coordinator of embedded journalists for the U.S. Marine Corps. William Branigin, Washington Post correspondent, embedded journalist, and John Donvan, ABC News Nightline correspondent, non-embedded journalist.

Robert Dodaro. “Eloquent Lies, Just War and the Politics of Persuasion: Reading Augustine’s City of God in a ‘Postmodern World,'” Augustinian Studies, 25, 1994, pp. 77-138. Dodaro puts Augustine’s critique of deception for political and military ends in the context of his “often missed” critique of Roman religious and social institutions as carriers of ruling class ideology. Contains an analysis of Augustine’s views on Rome’s use of “mass media” in the context of ethical writing on the 1991 Persian Gulf war. Dodaro atypically casts Augustine in politically progressive tones and situates Noam Chomsky in the Augustinian tradition.

Greta Morris. “Morris Confirmed as US Ambassador to Marshalls,” East-West Center, July 2, 2003. Greta moves from PAO Jakarta, where her work included the US/Indonesian Telecast “Common Values, Common Challenges” (co-sponsored by State and GWU’s Public Diplomacy Institute, February 2003) to arranging appointments for journalist Tom Friedman that led to good columns on public diplomacy.

John Gittings.“Beijing is Losing the People’s War in Cyberspace,” YaleGlobal Online, July 21, 2003. Gittings contends an emerging civil society is gaining more freedom and “the sheer volume of people taking to the Web to discuss taboo subjects is overwhelming the government.” YaleGlobal Online, a publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, is an excellent website for articles and papers on globalization issues.

Walter Isaacson. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2003. Isaacson’s biography follows Edmund S. Morgan’s Benjamin Franklin published in 2002. Both books discuss Franklin’s years as a public diplomat in London and Paris. Isaacson, former Chairman of CNN and managing editor of Time magazine, devotes attention to Franklin’s media relations, use of anonymous press items, association with philosophical and scientific organizations, “gambit of drawing power from American idealism” as a “public diplomacy strategy,” and role in the high culture and high politics of 18th century Europe. Morgan is useful for his chapter length analysis of Franklin’s thinking on “the importance of public opinion.”

Anthony Kuhn. “Chinese Learn True Scope of SARS From the Internet,” USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, May 28, 2003. How the government-controlled media downplayed the extent of the epidemic and the number of fatalities. (Former VOA staffer Josh Fouts is co-founder and executive editor of the Online Journalism Review.)

Yale Richmond. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain, University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. Drawing on scholarly literature, Russian archives, interviews with Americans and Russians, and his years of foundation and Foreign Service experience, Yale provides a comprehensive, thoughtful, and penetrating analysis of the influence of exchanges on the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. (Courtesy of McKinney Russell)

U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. The New Diplomacy: Utilizing Innovative Communication Concepts that Recognize Resource Constraints, July, 2003. This 6-page Commission report contains recommendations on American Presence Posts, American Corners, and Virtual Consulates. Online at the Commission’s website.

U.S. Department of State. State’s International Information Programs website has a new look. Intended for overseas audiences, this valuable website continues to be an excellent resource for U.S. students and journalists.

Students also use the periodic “Issue Focus” reports on State’s Foreign Media Reactionpage.

State’s Foreign Press Centers website is useful for its links to: briefing transcripts, Congressional Reference Service and other government reports, a new page on the 2004 elections, and weblinks for journalists,

U.S. Department of State. Outcome Assessment of the Institute for Representative Government (IRG) Program. Evaluation of programs “to enhance understanding of the US political system and the US Congress among foreign parliamentarians and government officials from developing or newly established democracies.” Study conducted by the American Institutes for Research of Washington, DC. Available online in pdf format. (Courtesy of Ted Knicker, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.)

— One page summary

— Executive summary (8 pages)

— Summaries for other program evaluations

R.S. Zaharna. “The Unintended Consequences of Crisis Public Diplomacy: American Public Diplomacy in the Arab World,” Foreign Policy in Focus, Interhemispheric Resource Center, June 2003. Zaharna argues that unless Washington officials address why initial public diplomacy efforts failed after 9/11, the same result may occur in future but with greater consequences.

R.S. Zaharna and Mark Heaphy. “Letters and Comments,” Progressive Response. Exchange on Zaharna’s article. Interesting conversation on cognitive styles, cultural differences, how Americans and others perceive and sequence facts — and grasp “truth.” (Courtesy of Ellen Frost)

— “Letters and Comments” [Scroll down page to “Analytical Shortcomings in Analysis of Public Diplomacy.”]

Brent Cunningham, “Re-thinking Objectivity” Columbia Journalism Review, July/August, 2003.
Lengthy discussion of questions relating to journalistic principles of “objectivity” and “truth” in the post 9/11 and Iraq war contexts. Draws on the thinking of James Carey, Herbert Gans, E.J. Dionne, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, and others. Looks at reliance on official sources, computer assisted research, nonstop news cycles, and the Bush Administration’s case for the Iraq war.

Claes de Vreese, Communicating Europe: Next Generation Democracy. British Council & Weber Shandwick Public Affairs, April 2003.
Based on a study of broadcast media across the EU, de Vreese concludes that too often the EU’s strategy is to focus on sending out pro-European messages, rather than presenting the EU as a political system with room for disagreement, discussion and debate. Contains recommendations on how the EU must change including the redesign of institutions to take account of political communication and news framing. Available at the Foreign Policy Centre‘s website.

DiploFoundation, Web-Management for International Organisations, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, Malta, 2003,
Paperback, 40 pages. Summaries of papers presented at the International Conference on Web-Management for International Organisations. Web management practitioners and decision makers in international organisations share their experiences and discuss issues of common interest.

Alan Heil, Voice of America: A History, Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 538.
Alan’s detailed and carefully researched “insider’s story” of “the transformation of VOA from a propaganda organ to a respected source of information, from shortwave in World War II to multimedia in the twenty-first century, from a wartime base of relatively few listeners in its first weeks to a global network combining radio, television, and the Internet.”

Stephen Hess and Marvin Kalb, eds. The Media and the War on Terrorism, Brookings Institution, 2003. Publication forthcoming. Current and former government officials and broadcast journalists look at post-9/11 media coverage issues. Contributors include Victoria Clarke, Lawrence Eagleburger, Ted Koppel, Bob Schieffer, Daniel Schorr, and James R. Schlesinger. Co-sponsored with Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.

Robert D. Kaplan. “Supremacy by Stealth: Ten Rules for Managing the World,” The Atlantic Monthly, July/August, 2003, pp. 66-83. Analysis of how the U.S. should operate at a tactical level in managing its “global empire.” Based on Kaplan’s extensive reporting on the role of U.S. Special Forces and his book, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos, 2001. Kaplan calls for language qualified and media savvy diplomats, more area experts and language specialists inside government, and — as a “strategic imperative” — reinvention of the U.S. Information Agency. (Courtesy of Dell Pendergrast)

Robert D. Kaplan. “The Hard Edge of American Values,” The Atlantic Online. In a lengthy post-publication interview with Elizabeth Shelbourne, Kaplan elaborates on his July/August cover story. “Supremacy by Stealth.” Kaplan elaborates on State’s relevance, State/military relations, the role of the media, and the need to “do information a lot better than we are doing it.”

Pippa Norris. Framing Terrorism: The News Media, Government & the Public, Routlege, 2003. This collection of essays looks at the news framing process and its impact on US foreign and national security policies since 9/11. Contributors include Professors Sean Aday and Kimberly Gross of GWU’s School of Media and Public Affairs. Several chapters are available online. (Courtesy of Donna Oglesby)

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. “U.S. Power and Strategy After Iraq,” Foreign Affairs, July/August, 2003, pp. 60-73. Nye updates key arguments on soft power; US, Iraq, and North Korea policies; and the Bush Administration’s national security strategy with his usual analytical clarity. A convenient summary of central arguments in his The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone, 2002.

Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. “Managing the Message.”Transcript of Terence Smith’s Media Watch, May 23, 2003. Smith, New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller, and former Reagan deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver look at how the resignation of White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer and President Bush’s speech at Mt. Rushmore draw attention to the way the administration projects the president’s image.

Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. “Media Crackdown,” Transcript of Terence Smith’s Media Watch, June 1, 2003. Smith discusses the state of Russian media and President Putin’s closure of Russia’s last remaining independent television broadcaster with Ellen Mickiewicz, a Russian media expert from Duke University, and Yevgeny Kiselyov, former general manager of the now defunct TV-6.

Howard Rheingold. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution: Transforming Cultures and Communities in the Age of Instant Access, Perseus Publishing, 2002. Internet guru Rheingold looks at how the convergence of mobile communications — cellular phones, personal digital assistants, and wireless-paging and Internet-access devices — is driving political and cultural change from Tokyo to Helsinki to Manhattan to Manila. Updated ideas from the author of The Virtual Community,1993.

Rachel Smolkin. “Media Mood Swings,” American Journalism Review, June 2003. Smolkin looks at the media’s Iraq war coverage. Did “news frames” reflect battle field realities and views of active and retired military officers? Or did the media make premature, fascile judgments?

U.S. Department of State. Recent electronic journals online at State’s International Information Program‘s website.

— “Responses to Human Trafficking,” June, 2003.

— “The Changing Face of U.S. Courts,” May, 2003.

— “The Arts in America: New Directions,” April, 2003.

Upcoming

— “American Internationalism,” July, 2003.

— “Agricultural Biotechnology,” August, 2003.

— “Innovations in Democratic Governance,” September, 2003.

Duncan Watts, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, W.W. Norton & Co., 2003. Columbia University and Santa Fe Institute sociologist Duncan Watts analyzes underlying principles of network theory, network structures, and ways in which information spreads (or doesn’t spread) between the nodes of a network — people, neurons, or computers.

[www.aspeninstitute.org/c&s/pdfs/netpolitik.pdf Available online] or by contacting the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program at (202) 736-5818 or at sunny@aspeninstitute.org.

Andrew Bushell and Brent Cunningham. “Being There: Suddenly the Pentagon Grants Access to the Action, But the Devil’s in the Details,” Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2003. Analysis of the pros and cons of embedded media with troops in the Middle East.

DiploFoundation. International Conference on Intercultural Communication and Diplomacy (Malta, 20-23 February 2003). Report on a conference attended by 70 participants from 36 countries. Twenty four speakers presented on aspects of intercultural communication in diplomacy. Topics include cultural categories and values diplomats are likely to encounter in their work, stories from diplomatic practice, and case studies examining diplomacy in dealing with contacts between cultures.

Herbert J. Gans. Democracy and the News, Oxford University Press, 2003. Gans, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, updates his 1979 classic Deciding What’s News. Reflections on the media and participatory democracy in the context of concerns about increasingly powerful public agencies and interest groups.

Ted Gup. “Useful Secrets: In a Run-up to a War, How Do We Report Intelligently on Intelligence?” Columbia Journalism Review, March/April, 2003.

Mark Hunter. “Is Paris Seething? Anti-Americanism is on the Rise With the Help of the French Press,” Columbia Journalism Review, January/February, 2003. Hunter’s “Letter from France” analyzes media trends, changing attitudes, Internet impact, stepped up U.S. media competition in Europe, and the declining gatekeeper role of The International Herald Tribune.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman. The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World. Oxford University Press, 2003. Jamieson, Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication at University of Pennsylvania and Waldman, Annenberg Postdoctoral Fellow, assess news reporting from the 2000 campaign through the period after September 11. Chapter titles include: Press as Storyteller, Press as Amateur Psychologist, Press as Soothsayer, Press as Shaper of Events, and Press as Patriot.

Edmund S. Morgan. Benjamin Franklin, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002. Chapter 5, “The Importance of Opnion,” in Morgan’s masterful new biography provides insights into Franklin’s thinking on public opinion and his uses of political communication while serving as a colonial agent in London.

Terence Smith. “War News,” Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, April 1, 2003. Strengths and weaknesses of the military’s “embedding” program and its influence on news of the war in Iraq.

Susan Sontag. Regarding the Pain of Others, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. Sontag’s short book (131 pages) looks at photojournalism and the documentary imagery of war from Mathew Brady and the Charge of the Light Brigade in the 19th century to Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Balkans.

State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Impact of International Professional Exchanges on a U.S. Community: Philadelphia, PA. ECA’s Office of Policy Evaluation assessment of the impact of international professional exchanges on U.S. volunteers who host or meet with foreign visitors. The evaluation focuses on International Visitor, Community Connections, and Sister Cities programs. (Courtesy of Ted Knicker, ECA)

– One page summary

– Eight page executive summary

University of Windsor (Ontario Canada), Leddy Library. Website with links to a wide variety of news service coverage of the war in Iraq. Includes mainstream U.S., Canadian and overseas news media, governmental news releases, news summary and analysis sources, and various “alternative” news services. (Courtesy of Margarita Studemeister, US Institute of Peace)

Public Diplomacy Institute. Indonesia Town Hall Meeting, “Common Values, Common Challenges”

7:30 – 9:30 a.m., Friday, February 7. PDC members are urged to attend a video dialogue between approximately 50 Americans and 50 Indonesians in GWU’s Jack Morton Auditorium (School of Media and Public Affairs, 21st & H Streets, NW). The program is being developed for rebroadcast on Indonesian Television in cooperation with U.S. Embassy Jakarta, the Public Diplomacy Institute, RCTI Indonesian Television, the U.S. Indonesia Society, and Weber Shandwick. Arranged by State Department FSO Tim Gerhardson and PDI Director Barry Fulton, this early a.m. town hall meeting will be moderated by SMPA faculty member Steven Roberts.

Council on Foreign Relations. The Council’s [www.terrorismanswers.com new terrorism website] uses a Q&A format to provide explanations and backgrounders on terrorism and related foreign policy issues. The site contains a lengthy Q&A on public diplomacy drawn in part from Council’s Task Force on Public Diplomacy report.

Foreign Policy Centre. This London based think tank, directed by Mark Leonard, has begun the first phase of a public diplomacy research program in the Middle East, producing a case study of popular perceptions of public diplomacy in Turkey and Saudia Arabia, to be completed in mid December. A separate strand of PD research will be a reexamination of Norway’s international image and standing.

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. The website transcript of Terry Smith’s public diplomacy segment (January 21) includes extended off-air interviews with each of the participants: U/S Charlotte Beers, media analyst Mamoun Fandy, BBG member Norman Pattiz, Radio Sawa news director Mouafac Harb, and Radio Sawa consultant Bert Kleinman.

Daniel Shurgurensky, ed., “Walter Lippmann and John Dewey Debate the Role of Citizens in Democracy,” History of Education: Selected Moments of the 20th Century. Concise, evenhanded treatment of this still relevant debate. Useful supplement for those who assign Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion.

Books

Mark A. Abramson and Therese L. Morin (eds.), E-Government 2003. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). The book includes a collection of nine research reports sponsored by the IBM Endowment for The Business of
Government. Among the papers is a chapter by Barry Fulton entitled “Leveraging Technology in the Service of Diplomacy: Innovation in the Department of State.”

W. Lance Bennett. News: The Politics of Illusion, (New York, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 2003). Fifth edition of this classic with a new foreword by Doris Graber. Updated with new case studies, research, and material on digital information, post 9/11 news issues, and the impact of the Internet on mass media news.

W. Lance Bennett and David L. Paletz (eds). Taken By Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994). This collection of 13 papers with an introduction by Marvin Kalb describes the role of the mass media and public opinion in the development of U.S. foreign policy in the 1991 Gulf War. It includes papers by PDI board members Jerry Manheim and Steve Livingston.
(Courtesy of Barry Fulton)

Mark Buchanan. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks, (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2002). This discussion of network theory, accessible to the non-specialist, treats social, technological, and scientific aspects of how networks interact and exchange information. Includes discussion of the Internet, information networks, the global economy, disease, and ecosystems.

James Dawes. The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War Through World War II, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2002). Dawes examines the relationship between language and violence focusing on American literature and two analytical models: The “emancipatory model,” derived from political discourse and deliberative democracy theories, and the “disciplinary model,” derived from poststructuralism and concepts of language as a means to discipline and control violence.

David Frum. The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush (New York, Random House, 2003). Chapter 9 in this account by a former Presidential speechwriter deals with the Administration’s post 9/11 communications efforts. References to Karen Hughes, Karl Rove, Charlotte Beers, and Norman Pattis. (Courtesy of Dell Pendergrast)

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Richelieu: Art and Power, Hilliard Todd Goldfarb, ed. This catalog (411 pages) written for the Museum’s recent exhibit explores Cardinal Richelieu’s use of the visual arts for political purposes. Thoughtful essays on art, history, psychology, and the subtle use of images to project state power.

Brigitte Nacos. Mass-Mediated Terrorism: The Central Role of the Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism, (Lanham, Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). A substantial rewrite of Professor Nacos’s (Columbia University) 1996 book on the media and terrorism. Includes extensive research on post 9/11 issues and a restatement of her theories on the media as terrorism’s “oxygen” and “propaganda of the deed.”

George Orwell. Essays. (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, Everyman’s Library, 2002). The only hardcover edition of Orwell’s literary and political writings. Introduction by John Carey. Includes “The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda,” “Politics and the English Language,” (writing advice worth assigning to undergraduates), and a number of Orwell’s BBC World Service commentaries broadcast during World War II.

Sandra Silberstein. War of Words: Language, Politics and 9/11, (New York, Routledge, 2002). A linguist’s critical study of the “strategic deployment of language” by the Bush Administration to build support for the war on terror.

Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan. Journalism After September 11, (New York, Routledge, 2002). Zelizer (Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania) and Allan (University of the West of England) bring together 15 essays on journalism and crisis, reporting by CNN and other global news media, Western representations of Islam, online journalism and other topics. Includes essays by James Carey (journalism pre-and post-9/11), Simon Cottle (television), and Ingrid Volkmer (political crises in a global network society).