Public Diplomacy

The objective of this study is to analyze the role educational exchange programs as a public diplomacy modality using the Fulbright Foreign Student Program Pakistan as a case study. This study investigates the ways in which the Fulbright Foreign Student program has been able to …

This dissertation is an examination of US public diplomacy efforts in the Arab world during the Eisenhower administration, focusing primarily on the US response to Egypt and Arab nationalism. The primary contribution that this study makes to the literature on US relations with t…

This research project broadly addresses the viability and the shifting roles of U.S. international broadcasting to the Middle East, as a tool of public diplomacy in the post 9/11 political climate. Specifically, investigating the indirect influence of the U.S. sponsored Al-Hurra…

The War on Terror ushered in a third level of diplomacy grounded in values as a cumulation of everyday micromoments: mythic public diplomacy. Mythic public diplomacy uses values as a communicative outcome that is a process, not a product. Mythic public diplomacy seeks to enginee…

After September 11th , 2001, much of the international relations discourse has focused on analyses of Muslim communities. Researchers have hoped to answer Fareed Zakaria's question "why do they hate us?" Samuel Huntington explains this phenomenon through a "clash of civilization…

Religious freedom has played an essential role in American history. Yet, there is a long tradition of neglect and ignorance in matters of faith in the U.S. foreign policy arena. As a result, diplomats are ill prepared to understand the evolution of religious freedom in the Ameri…