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by James Ketterer | on January 21st, 2010 | 0 comments

John Brown’s Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review, Version 2.0. If you aren’t reading this on a daily basis you should be. It is the best collection of everything you need to know about public diplomacy and it’s downright entertaining, too.

An excellent post on putting Ottoman ghosts into proper historical context – by Patricia Kushlis at WhirledView

Article: “Does Soft Power Matter: A Comparative Analysis of Student Exchange Programs 1980 – 2006,” by Carol Atkinson of Vanderbilt University.

Article: ” Beyond Minarets: Europe’s Growing problem with Islam,” by Shada Islam at Yale Global Online.

Mark Dillen has an excellent post on Kosovo at the FPA Blog U.S. Diplomacy. I worked on the first post-war elections in Kosovo in 2000 and Dillen’s post shows how much has changed since then – and how much hasn’t.

An interesting discussion about higher education in Ethiopia by Liz Reizberg and Laura E. Rumbley in International Higher Education (from the Boston College Center for International Higher Education).

Marc Lynch’s blog at Foreign Policy on the “Qaradawi Index”.

If Martin Luther King had been an aid official – the Powerpoint version of I Have A Dream (from AidWatchers).

"Power Corrupts, Powerpoint corrupts absolutey" - Graphic Credit: William Easterly

"Power Corrupts, Powerpoint Corrupts Absolutely" – Graphic Credit: William Easterly

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James Ketterer

James Ketterer is Dean of International Studies at Bard College and Director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs program. He previously served as Egypt Country Director for AMIDEAST, based in Cairo and before that as Vice Chancellor for Policy & Planning and Deputy Provost at the State University of New York (SUNY). In 2007-2008 he served on the staff of the Governor’s Commission on Higher Education. He previously served as Director of the SUNY Center for International Development.

Ketterer has extensive experience in technical assistance for democratization projects, international education, legislative development, elections, and policy analysis – with a focus on Africa and the Middle East. He has won and overseen projects funded by USAID, the Department for International Development (UK), the World Bank and the US State Department. He served on the National Security Council staff at the White House, as a policy analyst at the New York State Senate, a project officer with the Center for Legislative Development at the University at Albany, and as an international election specialist for the United Nations, the African-American Institute, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He is currently a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association and has also held teaching positions in international politics at the New School for Social Research, Bard College, State University of New York at New Paltz, the University at Albany, Russell Sage College, and the College of Saint Rose.

Ketterer has lectured and written extensively on various issues for publications including the Washington Post, Middle East Report, the Washington Times, the Albany Times Union, and the Journal of Legislative Studies. He was a Boren National Security Educational Program Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and in Morocco, an International Graduate Rotary Scholar at the Bourguiba School of Languages in Tunisia, and studied Arabic at the King Fahd Advanced School of Translation in Morocco. He received his education at Johns Hopkins University, New York University and Fordham University.

Areas of focus: Public Diplomacy; Middle East; Africa; US Foreign Policy

Contributor to: Global Engagement

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