TWO NEW GUIDES HELP AMERICANS COMMUNICATE WITH CONGRESS AND THE PUBLIC ABOUT GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT

Advocates of cooperative, principled U.S. global engagement were given a leg up in their communication efforts with the release of U.S. in the World: Talking Global Issues with Americans: A Practical Guide.  This guide's release comes on the heels of the release of an excellent nuts and bolts guide to working with Congress on peace and security issues, Policy Matters: Educating Congress on Peace and Security.

U.S. in the World, co-published by  the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and The Aspen Institute, is a communications guide that supports the work of advocates of pragmatic, principled, effective, and collaborative U.S. engagement in the world. It draws on the latest communications research and the insights of experts to outline convincing facts and arguments, and offer effective ways to put them across to non-expert American audiences.

Policy Matters, published by the Security for a New Century project of the The Henry L. Stimson Center, aims to give informed citizens, community leaders, experts, and nongovernmental organizations the tools to shape the ongoing debates in Congress about today's most critical international security issues.

Both guides are must-reads for the engaged citizen and the policy expert alike, and should be placed within easy reach of the advocate's desk for easy reference.


Updated July 15, 2004

Policy Matters: Educating Congress on Peace and Security

U.S. in the World
Talking Global Issues with Americans: A Practical Guide

Two page flyer for U.S. in the World guide (PDF)

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Links to other website highlighting polls and research on American public opinion on U.S. global engagement