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SEP 2, 2010
Dancers cover up for diplomacy’s sake
The Montreal Gazette
Cheerleaders donned black leggings and white T-shirts for a world championship basketball match between Iran and the United States in Istanbul on Wednesday to respect cultural sensitivities...Patrick Baumann, secretary-general of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), said "special arrangements" had been made with the dancers' dress on Wednesday.
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SEP 1, 2010
Who’s Got More Twitter Influence, You or Hugo Chavez?
The Atlantic
It's one thing to maintain ruthless control over an oppressed citizenry. But quite something else to tweet about it well. In today's Davos-driven geopolitics, even authoritarian leaders need to be savvy about public relations. That's why even the toughest leaders are all up on the Internet; they use Twitter to craft their images without the hassle and noise of competing parties or media bias.
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SEP 1, 2010
Public TV Hijacked by Foreign Propagandists
Canada Free Press
About 30 non-commercial TV stations around the U.S. are airing “MHz Network Worldview,” which includes programs from Al Jazeera English, the Kremlin’s “Russia Today” and other foreign state-controlled instruments of propaganda.
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SEP 1, 2010
The End of the Virtual World
THE Journal
[Rik] Panganiban is assistant director of the Online Leadership Program for Global Kids, which for four years has relied on the Teen Grid to educate urban youth from around the world about such topics as racism, the genocide in Darfur, child trafficking, public diplomacy, and the digital divide, in collaboration with UNICEF, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Youth Ventures, and more.
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SEP 1, 2010
Freedom to connect: The digitalization of the US State Department
Manila Bulletin
Up until last year, according to a report in the New York Times, the US State Department was still doing things the traditional way: through diplomatic cables, official communiqués and government to government transactions involving diplomats travelling to other countries to negotiate agreements.
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SEP 1, 2010
Mideast peace talks’ hidden threat
Politico (blog)
Some 46 percent of Israelis believe that President Barack Obama is “pro-Palestinian,” according to a Smith Research poll this summer. Since then, that figure most likely has ticked higher. After all, in July, the president upgraded the Palestinian delegation’s diplomatic status in Washington...
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 U.S. Public Diplomacy’s Neglected Mandate: Advancing Mutual Understanding
This study will attempt to understand why the U.S. public diplomacy's mandate of "mutual understanding" has ignored the need to increase Americans' understanding of foreign nations and peoples. It will seek to find what must be done to advance mutual understanding between U.S. and foreign publics in the future.
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 Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy
The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy provides a comprehensive overview of public diplomacy and national image and perception management, from the efforts to foster pro-West sentiment during the Cold War to the post-9/11 campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of the Muslim world.
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![]() U.S. Public Diplomacy Toward Africa Advanced by Obama’s Gesture
AUG 15, 2010
Philip Seib
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![]() AFRICOM’s Impressive Public Diplomacy Product
AUG 7, 2010
Philip Seib
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 How to Promote Economic Development: Your Sister City as a Tool
Sister Cities International
February 27, 2010
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 Benjamin Goldsmith & Yusaku Horiuchi: Global Public Opinion, US Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy
CPD Conversations in Public Diplomacy
12:00 PM, January 28th, 2010
Venue: USC; SOS B40
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 Salman Ahmad: Rock and Roll Refugee Relief
CPD Conversations in Public Diplomacy
4:30pm-6:00pm, Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Venue: USC; ASC 207
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