mercredi 9 juillet 2008

Karen Hughes


Karen Hughes
-Counselor to the President, 2001-2002
-Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, 2005-2007
-Communications Director, Bush for President 2000 and Communications Consultant for -President Bush re-election campaign 2004
Karen Hughes has been described as “the most powerful woman ever to serve in the White House” (Dallas Morning News), President George W. Bush's "most essential advisor" (ABC News) and “the most powerful public diplomacy czar in decades” (The Boston Globe). As Under Secretary of State Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, she traveled to more than 40 countries, meeting world leaders and reaching out to international audiences, work that she described as “waging peace.”
A longtime advisor to President Bush, Ambassador Hughes traveled at his side during both his presidential campaigns and served as Counselor to the President for his first 18 months in the White House. As Counselor, she worked on major domestic and foreign policy issues, led the international communications effort in the first year of the war against terror, and managed the White House offices of Communications, Media Affairs, Speechwriting and Press Secretary.

Assignement 3:
Karen Hughes, this diplomatic women that has made public diplomacy in the United State "strong and central". She actually defines her job as that she tries to make an American Dialogue with the world. She did big efforts to improve the U.S. image abroad. She added that she believes that public diplomacy every body jobs; for instance, ambassadors… Besides, Karen Hughes talks about the war of the Irak. “She said that “Negative events never help," to promote the right image of USA. Finally, she believes that public diplomacy plays a role in struggling against terrorism, and to convince us about this notion.
As Karen Huglers mentions the three strategic goals of the US-Public Diplomacy according to the interview conducted:
First of all, make sure that America continues to be the big opportunity in the world by the values, freedom, opportunities of work, anything you want to be.
Second, isolate and marginalize terrorists’ experiments by encouraging Muslims to speak out, and speaking in order to struggle against terrorists especially after the event of the eleventh of September.
Third, strategy is to foster a sense of common interest, common American values around the world.

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