Public Affairs Section Research Articles

ЛІДЕРСТВО У БУРЕМНІ ЧАСИ: РЕЦЕНЗІЯ НА КНИГУ ДОРІС КІРНС ҐУДВІН Ґудвін Д. К. Лідерство у буремні часи / пер. з англ. К. Смаглій. Харків: Віват, 2021. 592 с.

The review contains a quite through analysis of the book «Leadership in Turbulent Times» by Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The book was originally published in 2018 (New York, USA, Simon & Schuster), the Ukrainian edition appeared in 2021 (Kharkiv, Ukraine, Vivat Publishing) with the support from the Public Affairs Section, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. The reviewer highlights the core book’s idea of leadership development that unites the stories about four American presidents (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson) in one research. All the main structural elements of Goodwin’s Leadership are carefully examined: Introduction, Part 1. Ambition and the recognition of leadership, Part 2. Adversity and growth, Part 3. How they led: man and the times, Epilogue: Of death and legacy The study underlines the book’s strengths and weaknesses. And in addition, the review commends the work with notes and abbreviations by the author of book translation into Ukrainian Dr Kateryna Smagliy. Summing up the analysis, the reviewer points out that the Ukrainian translation appearance of Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin is to be welcomed. Distribution this book to the libraries and including it to the literature lists in universities courses for students specializing in the U.S. history can be a major impetus for the development and improvement of American studies in Ukraine.

Policy Spotlight

This regular feature aims to provide key political news in relation to dentistry and an update of the Faculty’s policy activities. You can find out more in the policy and public affairs section on the FDS website.

Policy Spotlight

This regular feature aims to provide key political news in relation to dentistry and an update of the Faculty–s policy activities. You can find out more in the policy and public affairs section on the FDS website.

This regular feature aims to provide key political news in relation to dentistry and an update of the Faculty’s policy activities. You can find out more in the policy and public affairs section on the FDS website.

This regular feature aims to provide key political news in relation to dentistry and an update of the Faculty’s policy activities. You can find out more in the policy and public affairs section on the FDS website.

Policy spotlight

This regular feature aims to provide key political news in relation to dentistry and an update of the Faculty’s policy activities. You can find out more in the policy and public affairs section on the FDS website.

This regular feature aims to provide key political news in relation to dentistry and an update of the Faculty’s policy activities. You can find out more in the policy and public affairs section on the FDS website.

This regular feature aims to provide key political news in relation to dentistry and an update of the Faculty’s policy activities. You can find out more in the policy and public affairs section on the FDS website.

Policy Spotlight

This regular feature aims to provide key political news in relation to dentistry and an update of the Faculty’s policy activities. You can find out more in the policy and public affairs section on the FDS website.

Policy spotlight

This regular feature aims to provide key political news in relation to dentistry and an update of the Faculty’s policy activities. You can find out more in the policy and public affairs section on the FDS website.

Policy spotlight

Welcome to our new, regular feature that aims to provide key political news in relation to dentistry and an update of the Faculty’s policy activities. You can find out more in the new policy and public affairs section on the FDS website.

Legal Developments in Civil Party Participation at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

AbstractFor the first time in the history of international criminal justice, victims of mass crimes have been granted the status of so-called ‘civil parties’ at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). This status grants them – at least theoretically – the right to participate in the proceedings as a formal party with broad participatory rights similar to the those of the defence and the prosecution. While the ECCC is exemplary in how it has addressed the issue of victims’ participation, practical necessities and judicial skepticism have led to significant changes in the civil party mechanism and continuously constrained participatory rights. First, changes in the ECCC's Internal Rules have significantly altered the original civil party mechanism and led to a form of victim participation similar to the one practised at the International Criminal Court (ICC), thus departing from the true meaning of a partie civile. Judicial decisions by the ECCC's judges, as well as changes in the Internal Rules, have abrogated the strong civil party mechanism that was originally anticipated in Cambodian criminal procedure law. Second, the practical challenges surrounding victim participation have been enormous. The Court itself was struggling due to lack of funding and lack of prioritization of a meaningful outreach program for victims and civil parties. The ECCC's Public Affairs Section (PAS) and the Victims Support Section (VSS) held the responsibility of reaching out to the general Cambodian population. However, it was Cambodian NGOs that ultimately established a collaborative outreach system and collected more than 8,000 Victim Information Forms (VIFs). All these efforts notwithstanding, only political willingness and a Cambodian discussion of how to deal with the vast number of perpetrators beyond a handful of criminal trials, can lead to a process of coming to terms with one's past.

Conflict Communication Management: Why Australians Didn't See Their Troops in Iraq

As the first conflict to be viewed ‘in real time’, the Iraq war of 2003 was dominated by almost continuous footage delivered by technological and journalistic innovations. In contrast with the unprecedented coverage provided by British and American embedded journalists, little was reported of the role of Australian troops. The Australian media have been highly critical of the way the Australian Defence Force (ADF) restricted media access to Australian troops, claiming that the ADF obstructed the community's right to know with excessive secrecy and ‘strategic unhelpfulness’. The ADF says it was unable to provide media access because of operational and national security issues specific to this conflict. Research conducted amongst members of both the Australian media and the ADF's Military Public Affairs section suggests that the debate around access and secrecy is symptomatic of a much larger clash of cultures. The difficulties faced at the media/military interface are partially explained by the fact that current communication theory does little to enhance understanding of what is really happening in conflict situations.

Public Diplomacy & Global Media

This article gives an insight into the role that public affairs will play in global diplomacy from the perspective of the public affairs section of the department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). It indicates a growing awareness of the need to project a good image to the Asian region and beyond, and the increasing specialisation of those specifically involved in the public affairs section. It discusses the prospects for public affairs in the future with the rise of 'video diplomacy', and the introduction of ATVI.