Archive for 'Image'
The Aftermath of Another Affront
by Chris Lundry (with R. Bennett Furlow) It did not take long for the images of the US Marines urinating on corpses of Taliban fighters to go viral. A moment of lapsed judgment will circulate as long as anyone is interested in seeing it, certainly long after short attention spans move on to other things [...]
Posted: January 18th, 2012 under Afghanistan, Image, Indonesia, Iraq, Media, Military, Southeast Asia.
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U.S. Domestic Politics and Public Diplomacy in Asia
by Steven R. Corman As Congress is once again behaving badly, I thought I would post a brief note about some interactions I have had while visiting Asia. Comments here show that what many of us regard as “inside baseball” matters a lot to foreign publics, and it has them worried. Last week I attended [...]
Posted: September 26th, 2011 under Diplomacy, Image, Southeast Asia.
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Yes, Extremists are Paying Attention
by Chris Lundry Last year, my colleagues Steven Corman, Jeffrey Halverson and I wrote a series of blog posts exploring Islamist reactions to anti-Islam and anti-Muslim events in the US, including the debate over the Park51 Islamic Center and an American pastor’s proposal to burn a Qur’an on 9/11, among others. One of the points [...]
Posted: September 26th, 2011 under Analysis, Counterterrorism, Government, Image, Intelligence, Islam, Narrative, Religion, Southeast Asia, State Dept., Strategic Comm..
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Has al-Qaeda Become a Toxic Brand?
by Steven R. Corman In business marketing, branding means creating demand for a product by creating an image that is appealing to potential consumers. This probably brings to mind successful brands like Coca-Cola, Disney, and Nike. But brands can also become “toxic.” Recent evidence suggests al-Qaeda may now be one such failed brand. Brands become [...]
Posted: August 9th, 2011 under Analysis, bin Laden, Image, Strategic Comm..
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A New Cultural Path for Indonesia’s Islamist PKS?
by Steven R. Corman The CSC has released a new white paper entitled A New Cultural Path for Indonesia’s Islamist PKS? by Mark Woodward, Ali Amin, Inaya Rohmaniyah, and Chris Lundry. The executive summary is as follows: With the commencement of Indonesia?s transition to democracy, following 32 years of rule by the military dictator Suharto, [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2011 under Image, Indonesia, Publications.
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Osama bin Laden’s Image Appears on Toast!
By Chris Lundry It was bound to happen: London’s Daily Mail reported yesterday that the face of Osama bin Laden appeared on a Londoner’s piece of toast. I have been fascinated with how the image of Osama bin Laden became a pop cultural phenomenon after 9-11 in some parts of the Muslim world (including Indonesia, [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2011 under bin Laden, Image, Indonesia, Popular Culture, Southeast Asia.
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Wiki-leaked Docs a Threat, but Maybe Not How Pentagon Thinks
by Cameron Bean and Bennett Furlow On Friday, October 22, Wikileaks released almost 400,000 documents on the Iraq War. At first Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell seemed to downplay the release, claiming the documents were “essentially snapshots of events” and do not “tell the whole story.” But chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen [...]
Posted: November 2nd, 2010 under Analysis, Defense Dept., Image, Intelligence, Iraq, Media, Military, Strategic Comm..
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Park51 Imagery and the Rhetoric of Contested Space
by Lisa Braverman A couple of weeks ago as I skimmed the news, I saw the freshly-released images of the Park51 Community Center (colloquially known as the “Ground Zero Mosque”). In the same sitting, I also performed my semi-regular check of a former professor’s co-authored blog, No Caption Needed. Perusing the two in such short [...]
Posted: October 27th, 2010 under Analysis, Framing, Image, Politics, Popular Culture, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm..
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Foreign Reaction to U.S. Anti-Muslim Events, Part IV: Narrative Coherence
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry This series has examined the reaction, mostly in mainstream news sources of foreign Muslim societies, to the recent surge in anti-Islam events in the United States. Part I focused on the Park51 (or Cordoba House) project, the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.” In part II we looked at [...]
Posted: September 10th, 2010 under Analysis, Diplomacy, Framing, Government, Image, Islam, Media, Narrative, Obama, Religion, Sensemaking, State Dept., Strategic Comm..
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Foreign Reaction to U.S. Anti-Muslim Events, Part III: Assorted Incidents
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry So far in this series we have looked at two high-profile anti-Muslim incidents in the U.S. Part I focused on the Park51 project, the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. In part II we looked at the controversy surrounding the “International Burn a Qur’an Day,” scheduled for [...]
Posted: September 9th, 2010 under Analysis, Framing, Image, Islam, Politics.
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