Public Diplomacy

the interview with Karen hughes was very interesting especially hearing her point of view about the American public diplomacy. first she provided an unofficial definition of Public Diplomacy which is very important for understanding public deplomacy acoording to an individual level. actually she brought a good points that explains US public Diplomacy such as the US try to have Dialogue with the word. here one can say that the US try to regain its credibility that have lost it after the Iraq war. another point is that the US try to marginalize terrorists and try to promote the common culture of the word to enhace the free trade. Karen huges argued that Public Diplomacy is every body's job, i think that she is right at this point because if every one act as a good citizen of the world not only citizen of a country he/she will promote the image of their countries and also there will be less conflicts in the world. if we relate this topic to the Moroccan context, one can say that the moroccan Public Diplomacy is far away to be compared to the American one because in my point of view Morocco lack of two fundamental requirements to reach a good level of Public Diplomacy which are Lack of Education and economy. Morocco can not afford to pay specialist inDiplomacy to educate people to know how to react and also it cannot afford to launch copaign of advertizing of the western Sahara.
to conclude, Public Diplomacy is a huge concept that cannot be afordable wiothout money and education. even culture plays a cricial roll in the way people see Diplomacy. to a response to the communication efforts of Karen, i think that the US really lost credibility and it will be very hard and need much more compaigns to regain it againe but not before solving Iraq problem.