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21st Century Statecraft

Date: 01/21/2010 Description: Images of 21st Century Statecraft: Display of live tracking of chips at the Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas. American competitor at the texting World Championship in NY. A woman at an internet cafe in Iran. A ranger uses text messages to track elephants at Ol Pejeta conservancy in Kenya. © AP Images

"To meet these 21st century challenges, we need to use the tools, the new 21st century statecraft.  And we’ve begun to do that.  We have seen the possibilities of what can happen when ordinary citizens are empowered by Twitter and Facebook to organize political movements, or simply exchange ideas and information. So we find ourselves living at a moment in human history when we have the potential to engage in these new and innovative forms of diplomacy and to also use them to help individuals be empowered for their own development."

--Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Date: 09/28/2010 Description: Secretary Clinton participates in a roundtable discussion with the Administration's New Global Development Policy at the annual U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Conference with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, USAID Administrator Raj Shah, and Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Daniel Yohannes. © State Dept Image by Michael Gross
View Video		 Secretary Clinton: "We will have developed a strong, lasting political constituency here at home that understands the role that development plays and the necessity that it provides in achieving our national security objectives as one of the three pillars of American foreign policy, ...there will be a political constituency in these countries that recognizes what they must also do, which is one of the reasons why we are using technology, what we’ve called 21st century statecraft, to communicate these ideas. Think of the implications of that for holding accountable not just our aid flows but the actions of governments in these countries so that we can make better partners out of them."  Full Text»
Date: 01/21/2010 Description: Secretary Clinton gives remarks on Internet freedom and 21st century statecraft at the Newseum in Washington, DC. - State Dept Image
   View Video		 Secretary Clinton: "We want to put these tools in the hands of people who will use them to advance democracy and human rights, to fight climate change and epidemics, to build global support for President Obama’s goal of a world without nuclear weapons, to encourage sustainable economic development that lifts the people at the bottom up."  Full Text»
Date: 01/21/2010 Description: Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner briefs reporters in the State Department Briefing Room on internet freedom and 21st century statecraft. - State Dept Image
   View Video		 Assistant Secretary Posner: "These tools, these connective tools of the internet, cell phones, are a prime way now that people are communicating within their own societies and communicating with the rest of the world. So this is really a vital piece of what we’re trying to do when we talk about linking human rights, democracy, and development." Full Text»
Date: 01/21/2010 Description: Senior Advisor for Innovation Alec Ross briefs reporters in the State Department Briefing Room on internet freedom and 21st century statecraft. - State Dept Image
   View Video		 Background briefing by Senior Advisor for Innovation Alec Ross on 21st century statecraft. View Video»

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