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Dr. Asya Cooley and Dr. Skye Cooley attended the Global Ties 2020 U.S. National Meeting in Washington, DC and presented the MESA Group project titled "Visions on Future of the Global Order: Towards the Need for Great Diplomacy." Together with five School of Media and Strategic Communications (SMSC) students and Dr. Jami Fullerton (Director of Graduate Programs, School of Global Studies and Partnerships and Professor and Peggy Welch Chair in Strategic Communications), they attended conference sessions and various U.S. Department of State events.

The Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) group released its newly published white paper, entitled: "Chinese Strategic Intentions: A Deep Dive into China’s Worldwide Activities." Twenty-seven experts, including the MESA Group researchers, contributed to this white paper, providing wide-ranging assessments of China’s domestic and international activities in order to assess the future of China and the challenges that these activities may present to US interests. This white paper is divided into five sections and twenty-four chapters. 

The MESA Group attended the National Communication Association (NCA) annual meeting and presented their work, titled "Northern Triangle News Media Perspectives on the Migration Crisis: Strategic Narrative and the Identification of Good Action."

The MESA Group published a report that provides a comparative analysis of Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan media narratives regarding visions of the future of global competition, including their instruments of exerting power (DIME), purported vulnerabilities and necessary capabilities, projected allies and adversaries, views on the future of global order (FGO), the US, and EU, as well as the available means by which global competition should be managed.

The MESA Group Video Brief. Dr. Skye Cooley and Ethan Sample discuss the results of the project analyzing Northern Triangle and Mexican news media perspectives on the migration crisis. Produced by Ethan Sample.

The heated 2016 presidential election changed the way many U.S. citizens, as well as citizens and leaders of other countries, view American democracy. 

The book "Global Media and Strategic Narratives of Contested Democracy" is now available on Amazon.

Skye Cooley attended the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence Summit, titled "Homeland Security Challenges: Evolving Threats and Dynamic Solutions." July 31 - August 1, 2019. George Mason University. Arlington, VA.

Asya Cooley presented the paper "The Future of Global Competition & Conflict: Russian Narrative" at the Twelfth Global Studies Conference at the Jagiellonian University Institute of European Studies. June 27-28, 2019. Krakow, Poland