CIAO DATE: 10/2008
April 2006
Shanthi Kalathil, rapporteur. In these two reports, the author explores the growing importance of soft power by looking at two crucial areas of international tension, the U.S. role in the Middle East and Sino-American relations. The role of information and communications technologies in American public diplomacy in the Middle East and American's relations with China is a central theme in the reports.
Resource link: Soft Power, Hard Issues: Reports of the 2005 Aspen Institute Roundtable on Public Diplomacy and the Middle East and the Forum on Communications and Society [PDF] - 762K