Regaining America's Voice Overseas: A Conference on U.S. Public Diplomacy
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Program
Welcoming remarks:
Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D, President of The Heritage Foundation and former Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
Excerpt: "But with the end of the Cold War, some in the Congress and in the White House believed that the need for public diplomacy was over. I hate to say that even some of my fellow conservatives advocated cutting public diplomacy's relatively modest budgets and folding the U.S. Information Agency into the Department of State. As all of you know, that is what happened in 1999."
Keynote address:
Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. Sen. Hagel is Chairman of the International Economic Policy, Export, and Trade Promotion Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Excerpt: "It appears to me--and I've seen this over the years, long before I was in the United States Senate when I was a businessman and traveled around the world--that many Americans and many policymakers don't always understand that when the President of the United States speaks, or the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Defense, that our words carry incredible weight in the world. Words matter. Symbolism matters. Actions, of course, matter. And all those things come together when you're talking about public diplomacy."
Panel 1, Strengthening Public Diplomacy:
- Joshua Muravchik, Ph.D., Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
- Douglas Seay, Senior Professional Staff Member with the House Committee on International Relations
- William H. Maurer, Jr., former Director of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the United States Information Agency.
- Ambassador William A. Rugh, President and Chief Executive Officer of America-Mideast Educational and Training Services
- Sherri Mueller, Ph.D., President of the National Council for International Visitors.
Panel 2, Streamlining Foreign Broadcasting:
- Seth Cropsey, Director of the International Broadcasting Board
- Alan L. Heil, Jr., former Deputy Director of Programs for the Voice of America
- Rhonda S. Zaharna, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at The American University
- Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Ph.D., Senior Researcher at Freedom House
- Mark Helmke, Senior Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Conference proceedings available on the Heritage Foundation Web site
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