Phil Taylor's papers
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BACK TO : PROPAGANDA AND THE LONG WAR - Year 8 - 2009
Whither Strategic Communication by Christopher Paul 
Christopher Paul, Whither Strategic Communication: A Survey of Current Proposals and Recommendations, Occasional Paper, RAND Corporation, 2009. Paul (RAND's International Security and Defense Policy Center) provides a useful and brief (19 pages) summary of key recommendations in the large collection of studies and opinion pieces on strategic communication and public diplomacy. Based on a review of 36 documents and more than a dozen structured interviews, Paul's survey groups core themes and presents the frequency of key recommendations in 22 categories. He discusses consensus recommendations and others that made frequent appearances in the literature. Paul favors the term strategic communication, defined "broadly and inclusively." He discusses alternative definitions and contrasting perspectives on strategic communication and public diplomacy.
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