Thought of the Day. He keeps saying, "The American Moment is Over." As we transition from a unipolar world where we are the worlds only superpower to a multi-polar world, or non-polar world of many rising regional powers, should the Navy's operational and deployment tempo adjust? During other periods of muti-polarity, major US Navy assets were reserved and rarely moved into areas until a cris...

The eyes of the world’s media are trained on Denver, the scene of the Democrat National Convention (DNC), where Barack Obama aims to show everyone that he can hold the most powerful (elected) role on the planet. You would expect it to be a media circus but lets peak behind the curtains a bit. This race has

Apart from pondering on the collective shame of how the world’s economy has imploded, the World Economic Forum at Davos had another story to tell this year. A post-forum analysis shows that its foray into the world of social media couldn’t have been more fulsome, with polls done via Facebook, news on Twitter feeds, videos on YouTube and photo galleries

Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images You've got to hand it to the Chinese. They know how to put on a show, as the world saw during the opening of the Beijing Olympics in August—and today for closing ceremony of the Paralympics. And the world's media were a pushover audience, according to a new study led by the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University ...

This week we explore how virtual worlds can influence the decisions made by politicians and policy makers. We also look at the growing number of children's virtual worlds

This afternoon the world's attention will be focussed on one city and one individual. Barack Obama takes office with the hopes of the planet on his shoulders. It will be almost impossible for him to live up to the expectations of the American people, let alone those of the entire world. The media are treating him as some God-like figure who can do no wrong. We all know that the media loves to...

Dr. Richard Landes has a superb bit up at Pajamas media that puts the entire news coverage of the Gaza flotilla by the dinosaur media in perspective: The latest explosion of anti-Israel rage, driven by the Muslim world and echoed by both the MSM and the international diplomatic community, raises important questions. How is it that in a world where North Korea and South Korea may go to war, Iran ma...

The government was right to go to India to carve out a new relationship based on the changing balance of economic activity and power in the world. The world Stock market index still reflects the world as it was in the last century. The USA

  Hello again and Happy New Year! After a short hiatus, PR Media Blog is back on the beat. And what better place to start than today’s Media Guardian, whch gives a pretty exhaustive forecast of the new world facing the media in 2009. Here is a sample of the most interesting views from the massed media commentators. Have

The world has been weighing in on the U.S. presidential election intermittently over the past two years, but what would happen if the countries of the world could cast a collective vote on Nov. 4? Would the world elect Barack Obama or John McCain? FP teamed up with the folks at the Gallup World Poll to create this must-see interactive map of their findings. The polls, conducted in 70 countries fro...