| Strengthening U.S. Public Diplomacy Requires Organization, Coordination, and Strategy
Johnson, Stephen; Dale, Helle C.; Cronin, Patrick
Heritage Foundation, August 5, 2005, Backgrounder #1875
"The final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States said that America’s biggest failure leading to the events of September 11, 2001, was a lack of imagination. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, terrorist dangers were hardly mentioned as priorities in America’s policy debates. Likewise, leaders in both the legislative and executive branches considered public diplomacy (PD) a Cold-War relic in the absence of a powerful adversary." Stephen Johnson is Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation, and Helle C. Dale is Director of the Allison Center. Patrick Cronin is the Senior Vice President and Director of Studies and Executive Director of the Hills Governance Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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