- 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 Absolutely" – Graphic Credit: William Easterly