Nancy Snow - Public diplomacy should be more ear driven than mouth

Public diplomacy should be more ear driven than mouth driven.

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Nancy Snow, Political Scientist, United States Information Agency, Interview, The Tavis Smiley Show, December 6, 2006

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Nancy E. Snow is a professor of philosophy and the director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at the University of Oklahoma. Prior to her move to Norman, she was a professor of philosophy at Marquette University.Her research has ranged widely, but has mostly focused on moral psychology and on virtue ethics. She has served as an editor of or on the editorial boards of a number of major journals, and has written or been primary editor of four books (as well as a large number of peer-reviewed papers.)

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