Thursday, March 08, 2007

Quotation

Of the four great instrumentalities available to nations for influencing the world around them -- diplomacy, armed force, money, and information -- the last is both the most powerful and the least understood.

Ithiel de Sola Pool
"Information Goals"
Foreign Service Journal
July 1963, page 24
Quoted in Digital Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Information Age by Wilson Hazard

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