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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaaov0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points * Authoritarian regimes are proving increasingly adept at fragmenting and controlling the internet for purposes of censorship, surveillance, and internal and external propaganda and misinformation. The US has failed to counter this with an effective national security strategy that gives US public diplomacy the capabilities and missions needed for success in the information war. * Instead of focusing on producing original content, US public diplomacy and international broadcasting should embrace a 21st-century, multimedia, public broadcasting model to promote American values and truthful information in cyberspace. * The US should also strengthen and use existing tools of US diplomacy to advance freedom online as a universal (and universally accessible) human right, such as the multistakeholder internet governance forums, the Freedom Online Coalition, the National Endowment for Democracy, and State Department reports on internet freedom. After a decade in which the explosive growth of the internet brought greater freedom, knowledge, community, and opportunity to billions of people worldwide, the pendulum is swinging back. Authoritarian regimes have learned to use the internet as an instrument of control at home and for propaganda-and political disruption-abroad. Such regimes are reshaping the norms of the internet in ways detrimental to US interests and values. Meanwhile, the US has failed to respond effectively. The outgoing administration leaves behind little coherent strategy for advancing American values and interests in cyberspace. America's public-diplomacy architecture occupies no strategically significant role in pursuing US policy objectives and is not integrated into strategic policymaking at the highest level, as it should be. Public diplomacy is a potentially powerful weapon in America's foreign and security policy arsenal, but as currently conceived and configured, it is largely dismissed by strategists and ignored by practitioners. This is because its various operational capabilities are hobbled by conflicting missions that lack strategic coordination, duplicate often unnecessary functions, share few assets that could produce multiplier effects, are hostage to processes and concepts whose intrinsic value to the design and implementation of US policy is questionable, and adapt reluctantly to a rapidly AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE

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