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Article Alert
 Roberts,
Walter R. WHAT IS PUBLIC DIPLOMACY? PAST PRACTICES, PRESENT
CONDUCT, POSSIBLE FUTURE (Mediterranean Quarterly, vol. 18, no.
4, Fall 2007, pp. 36-52)
The author, cofounder of the Public Diplomacy Institute at George
Washington University and a former member of the U.S. Advisory
Commission on Public Diplomacy, writes that there is no agreement on
what constitutes public diplomacy. A century ago, the populations of
most countries were all-but-unreachable; no government had any
reason to explain their policies to foreign publics. That changed
with the invention of radio, which the Bolshevik and Nazi regimes
used to great effect. It was the Nazi wartime propaganda activities
in Latin America that prompted the U.S. to initiate cultural and
academic exchanges.
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Markets and Democracy
The connection between markets and democracy has never been a straight line. Since the 1700s economic thinkers have been debating this complex relationship. Is it possible to have free markets without democracy? Which develops first? Can the incentive of economic growth lead to greater democracy in countries that are not democratic?
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