The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (a branch within the US State Department) releases annual ‘Human Rights Reports’ on 194 different countries around the globe. Their 2021 report for Ukraine was released in April of this year. Despite its relevance to whether US intervention in the RU-UA war is merited, the report received zero media coverage.
Michael Pack has a heavy load to carry. The new head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), must bear the weighty tip of the spear for American public diplomacy in an age of great-power competition and the competition is fierce. Rather than make him a dartboard for controversy, Washington should mount a bipartisan effort to make him successful. The World We Got
After two years of stalling, it’s time for the Trump administration to get its own leadership in place at the U.S. government’s global media complex. After a few cliffhanging and nail-biting developments in late 2018, the Senate is positioned to move forward with the nomination for the top job at the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, leaders in both the legislativeand executive branches essentially discarded public diplomacy as aCold War relic. Since 9/11, the situation has improved onlymarginally if at all. To restore America's voice, governmentleaders should draw on the nation's Cold War legacy to lay thefoundation for the next generation of public diplomacy.