How is informational power that states employ in today’s turbulent world making an impression on increasing billions of people in this multimedia age? DEFINITIONS OF POWER AND HOW IT IS USED Hard power, or sheer military might: applied internationally in times of crisis. Soft power, or public diplomacy: designed to persuade and listen to those…
Imagine spending 12 percent of the entire U.S. budget to help displaced and mostly impoverished Middle East, African and Afghan refugees to rebuild their lives? The Marshall Plan of 1947 did just that for war-torn postwar Europe. It was an indispensable helping hand for an entire generation recovering from devastation and dislocation after World War II. The…
By Alan Heil Jr. The United Nations calls it the worst humanitarian crisis since 1945. Largely ignored on world media: the threat that about 20 million people in four African countries, in addition to millions in Yemen, will starve to death, among them millions of children. Perhaps no news organization has focused so intensively on…