The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/diplomacy/)
Christopher Painter ’80, a former cyber expert for the U.S. State department, discussed contemporary cybersecurity challenges and how they can be overcome by diplomacy.
Few words are needed to express the heavy realities found within our global refugee crisis. Ai Weiwei’s documentary Human Flow captivates an awareness of this crisis chronicling the unimaginable narratives of refugees around the globe. Weiwei follows a series of stories, capturing the lives of refugees in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico and Turkey.
“As we speak now, this moment, something that was inconceivable 20 years ago is happening,” Dani Dayan said. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is visiting China while, simultaneously, the president of Israel is visiting Vietnam. We did not even have diplomatic relations with these countries 25 years ago.”
During his campaign, President Obama took the unprecedented step of traveling to Europe and giving a speech to thousands in Berlin. Undoubtedly, the trip was motivated by domestic goals; Obama wanted to be portrayed as a leader that could restore greatness to the image of the United States abroad, a leader that we could be proud of. And in that sense, it was effective. Now as the President makes his second trip abroad (and first major one) he is bringing the stump speech from Prague to Ankara in an effort to win over foreign publics and governments.