I i would briefly walked to the agenda before we invite the speakers onto the stage. First up we have Katherine Brown and jay wang will participate on a paper which is published online today called Public Diplomacy and National Security in 2017. Building alliances, fighting extremism and dispelling this information. Katherine is council of Foreign Relations International Affairs fellow and a visiting fellow with my program here at csis and weve been fortunate to have her for a couple of months leading to his work on Public Diplomacy. She most recently served as executive director of the u. S. Advisory commission on Public Diplomacy. Jay wang is an associate professor at the Usc Annenberg school for communication and journalism, and director of the usc center on Public Diplomacy. The paper theyre going to present to you today emerged from the workshop that we held jointly with jason center back in november. Essentially what it does is indexed and assessment of where weve been with Publi
National security advisor ben rhodes. And former undersecretary of state jim glassman to begin. Theyll be talking about Public Diplomacy of the past two president ial administrations and what they recommend for the Incoming Trump administration. Good afternoon. Were going to go ahead and get started. N my name is shannon green, senior fellow and director of the human rights director and it is my distinct pleasure to welcome you today for what proves to be a fascinating discussion on Public Diplomacy and National Security. We have a very full program today so i thought i would very briefly walk through the agenda before we invite the speakers on to the stage. First up we have Catherine Brown and jay wong who will present the paper that we just published online today called Public Diplomacy and National Security in 2017. Building alliances, fighting extremism, and dispelling disinformation. Catherine is counsel on Foreign Relations International Affairs fellow and a visiting fellow with
Good a after noofternoon. We are going to get started. Im Shannon Green, the director of the human rights here, and it is my distinct distinct pleasur present diplomacy on National Security. I thought we would go over the agenda before the speakers up on stage. We have Catherine Brown and jay wong. Building alliances, fighting extremism. Catherine is a visiting fellow with my program here at csis and have been very fortunate having her lead this work on Public Diplomacy. She served as the executive director of Public Diplomacy. Jay wong, director of the ucs center on Public Diplomacy. The paper emerged from a workshop held jointly with jay center back in november. It conducts an assessment of where weve been with Public Diplomacy and what are the main successes under the Obama Administration and we suggest ways that we can strengthen Public Diplomacy going forward. Following that brief parensatiopr prepresentation wiben crawley. Bush administrations respecti respectively. During this t
I had to wait a long time for this. I was at basic training in fort jackson. The the obviously here easily, and and the cadre and the mess talking about the restraints that the personnel of bjl. And lbj and the restraints that he was under was the incremental buildup that johnson put him through and the administration and i dont think you spoke much about it and just an observation of my own that the only thing i saw later on that what really worked that scared the bejeaners was a linebacker one and two. That got them, you know, to the to negotiate with us. Thats an important point, i think, that clearly west moreland is dealing with the with the theory of graduated pressure which is which kind of takes hold in the National Security establishment. This idea that we can determine how much pressure to ratchet up or ratchet back and eventually hanoi will realize that it cant win this long war because we have the ability to either ratchet up or ratchet back. Unfortunately, we dont have tha
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