This report maps the US State Department's rapidly growing ediplomacy effort. It reveals State now employs over 150 full-time ediplomacy personnel working in 25 different nodes at Headquarters. More than 900 people use ediplomacy at US missions abroad. The report – the result of a four-month research project in Washington DC and extensive access to...

Drawing from a corpus of over 50 million Russian-language tweets collected between for a year until March 2011, this US paper creates a network map of 10,285 users comprising the ‘discussion core,’ and clustered them based on a combination of network features. The resulting segmentation revealed key online constituencies active in Russian Twitter The major...

It turns out that birds of a feather don’t always flock together on social networking sites when it comes to politics. There is evidence in a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project that on social networking sites (SNS): Friends disagree with friends about political issues and usually let their...

Yield curve models within the popular Nelson and Siegel (hereafter NS) class are shown to arise from a formal low-order Taylor approximation to the generic Gaussian affine term structure model. That theoretical foundation provides an assurance that NS models correspond to a well-accepted framework for yield curve modeling.It further suggests that any yield curve from...

This is the 2011 Trade report compiled by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade showing import and export indicators as well as comparing Australian productivity with other leading trade nations around the world.