William A Rugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1129844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William A Rugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | William A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rugh |
| SIGNATURE | RUGH W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hess (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Challenges for U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Age of Trump
American diplomats responsible for public diplomacy working in the Middle East have always faced a number of challenges. Most arise from criticisms of U.S. policy; for example, the Arab-Israeli conflict, American intervention in Iraq, or the US posture toward the civil war in Syria. In today’s climate, such substantive criticisms continue, but American diplomats must now also contend with a number of operational constraints that are new, and aris…
American soft power and public diplomacy in the Arab world
This position article applies the concept of soft power as developed by Joseph Nye to the Arab world and US public diplomacy in that area. Evaluating public opinion and the challenges of public diplomacy in the Arab world is difficult because of the absence of hard data on polling and public diplomacy issues. However, American diplomats who have served in the Arab world, including this author, know that most Arabs are critical of US foreign polic…
Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
Problems in Yemen, Domestic and Foreign
Front line public diplomacy: How US embassies communicate with foreign publics
This book presents the first-ever close and up-to-date look at how American diplomats working at our embassies abroad communicate with foreign audiences to explain US foreign policy and American culture and society. Projecting an American voice abroad has become more difficult in the twenty-first century, as terrorists and others hostile to America use modern communication means to criticize us, and as new communication tools have greatly expande…
E gyptian P olitics and A merican D iplomacy
Repairing American public diplomacy
It is widely believed among academics who study the subject, and among former practitioners, that public diplomacy has not achieved its full potential, and we are hopeful that the Obama Administration will now solve some of its problems. This essay focuses on the most important challenges, which in many ways concern broadcasting to the Arab world. Public diplomacy is of course not a panacea. America’s foreign policy decisions such as the Iraq war…
Do National political systems still influence Arab media
This essay is intended to revisit the thesis I advanced in a study of Arab mass media first published in 1979, and updated in 1987 and 2004, that the most important variable influencing the political role of media channels in the Arab world is the national political system in which they operate. Recent changes in information technology, especially the growth of satellite television, have had an impact on Arab media, making national borders more p…
Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, and Television in Arab Politics
Since September 11, 2001, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many television viewers in the United States have become familiar with Al Jazeera as offering an alternative take on events from that presented by mainstream U.S. media, as well as disseminating anti-American invective. Westerners have tended toward simplistic views of Arab newspapers, radio, and television, assuming that they are all under government control and that freedom of pres…
Education in Saudi Arabia: Choices and Constraints
Time To Modify Our Gulf Policy
S ymposium ‐T he C hallenge I n T he G ulf: B uilding a B ridge F rom C ontainment to S tability
The following is an edited text of the proceedings of a Capitol Hill conference convened by the Middle East Policy Council on March 5, 1997, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Michael Collins Dunn, senior analyst at the International Estimate, was the moderator/discussant
T he U nited A rab E mirates: W hat A re the S ources of its S tability
The Arab Press
The Arab Press
Time To Modify Our Gulf Policy
S ymposium ‐T he C hallenge I n T he G ulf: B uilding a B ridge F rom C ontainment to S tability
The following is an edited text of the proceedings of a Capitol Hill conference convened by the Middle East Policy Council on March 5, 1997, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Michael Collins Dunn, senior analyst at the International Estimate, was the moderator/discussant
T he U nited A rab E mirates: W hat A re the S ources of its S tability
Education in Saudi Arabia: Choices and Constraints
Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, and Television in Arab Politics
Since September 11, 2001, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many television viewers in the United States have become familiar with Al Jazeera as offering an alternative take on events from that presented by mainstream U.S. media, as well as disseminating anti-American invective. Westerners have tended toward simplistic views of Arab newspapers, radio, and television, assuming that they are all under government control and that freedom of pres…
Do National political systems still influence Arab media
This essay is intended to revisit the thesis I advanced in a study of Arab mass media first published in 1979, and updated in 1987 and 2004, that the most important variable influencing the political role of media channels in the Arab world is the national political system in which they operate. Recent changes in information technology, especially the growth of satellite television, have had an impact on Arab media, making national borders more p…
Repairing American public diplomacy
It is widely believed among academics who study the subject, and among former practitioners, that public diplomacy has not achieved its full potential, and we are hopeful that the Obama Administration will now solve some of its problems. This essay focuses on the most important challenges, which in many ways concern broadcasting to the Arab world. Public diplomacy is of course not a panacea. America’s foreign policy decisions such as the Iraq war…
E gyptian P olitics and A merican D iplomacy
Front line public diplomacy: How US embassies communicate with foreign publics
This book presents the first-ever close and up-to-date look at how American diplomats working at our embassies abroad communicate with foreign audiences to explain US foreign policy and American culture and society. Projecting an American voice abroad has become more difficult in the twenty-first century, as terrorists and others hostile to America use modern communication means to criticize us, and as new communication tools have greatly expande…
Problems in Yemen, Domestic and Foreign
American soft power and public diplomacy in the Arab world
This position article applies the concept of soft power as developed by Joseph Nye to the Arab world and US public diplomacy in that area. Evaluating public opinion and the challenges of public diplomacy in the Arab world is difficult because of the absence of hard data on polling and public diplomacy issues. However, American diplomats who have served in the Arab world, including this author, know that most Arabs are critical of US foreign polic…
Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
Challenges for U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Age of Trump
American diplomats responsible for public diplomacy working in the Middle East have always faced a number of challenges. Most arise from criticisms of U.S. policy; for example, the Arab-Israeli conflict, American intervention in Iraq, or the US posture toward the civil war in Syria. In today’s climate, such substantive criticisms continue, but American diplomats must now also contend with a number of operational constraints that are new, and aris…
Political science (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (7 works) · Citation (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Diplomacy (5 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Library science (4 works)