In this photograph taken on September 7, 2017, a house burns in Gawdu Tharya village near Maungdaw in Rakhine state in northern Myanmar. STR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Syracuse Public Diplomacy students examined the human rights crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine State through the lens of press freedom, as part of a weeklong journalism practicum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. See their analysis and reporting: Oppressed Media Clouds Rohingya Crisis.
The audience at Coachella could have been forgiven last April if they heard the announcement that The HU was about to take the stage, prepared themselves for a nostalgia tour of “My Generation”, “Who Are You?” and “Pinball Wizard”, and were surprised instead by the cultural experience of one of Mongolia’s most popular folk rock […]
One of the hallmark characteristics of public diplomacy is its interdisciplinary nature – which has been a blessing and a curse for scholars and practitioners alike. On one hand, our knowledge has been enriched by a variety of disciplines, including – and definitely not limited to – communication, international relations, history, sociology, and marketing. On […]
Throughout much of the first decade of the 21st Century, the United States and Europe reaped the spoils of the end of the Cold War, in the eastward expansion of both the European Union and NATO. The sovereign nations of the Warsaw Pact were free to choose their own course and turn westward. The “captive […]