GUEST POSTING AT BEACON<\/b><\/p>\n
Paul D. Kretkowski<\/strong>, journalist and proprietor of Beacon<\/strong> <\/a>has invited me to participate next weekin a blogging series <\/a>to answer the question“ What was the best single episode of public diplomacy ever, and secondly, what has been the most influential element of soft power of all time?”<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n Kretkowski has assembled an impressive team of contributors and I’m flattered to be included amongst them. They are:<\/p>\n “\u2014Former Foreign Service Officer and Public Diplomacy<\/em> Reviewer<\/em> <\/a>John H. Brown<\/span><\/strong> I will be linking to each contributor’s post daily but I encourage you to visit Beacon and offer your comments on this important series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GUEST POSTING AT BEACON Paul D. Kretkowski, journalist and proprietor of Beacon has invited me to participate next weekin a blogging series to answer the question“ What was the best single episode of public diplomacy ever, and secondly, what has been the most influential element of soft power of all time?”. Kretkowski has assembled an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\u2014University of Leicester and USC professor Nicholas Cull<\/span><\/strong>
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\u2014Former FSO and WhirledView<\/a><\/em> contributor Patricia Kushlis<\/span><\/strong>
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\u2014Harvard professor and Soft Power author Joseph Nye<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
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\u2014Intel\/military maven and ZenPundit<\/em> founder Mark Safranski<\/span><\/strong>
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\u2014CSU Fullerton associate professor and USC senior fellow Nancy Snow<\/span><\/strong>“<\/p>\n