President Claudia Sheinbaum can turn Mexico’s cultural abundance into lasting influence by making listening, coordination and reciprocity the core of public diplomacy.

Does the Korean State’s conscription of BTS erode their organic status, creating a paradox between managed public diplomacy and independent cultural credibility?

The value of an exchange cannot be measured only by what a participant receives. It must also be measured by what the participant does afterward.

People fall in love when their counterpart makes an effort not only to understand their culture, but to engage and integrate within it, regardless of external criticism. 

Lamia Zia explores whether Indonesia is becoming an arena in which major powers compete for influence, or whether the rising economic power strategically uses that competition to build a technological future on its own terms.

“Public Diplomacy in the News” is a CPD Blog series by Andrew Dubbins, featuring noteworthy recent stories in public diplomacy.

Fashion is simultaneously symbolic and economic — a cultural artifact capable of communicating identity while operating within global markets of production, consumption, and exchange.

If mega-events are going to keep functioning as public diplomacy, the measure has to move.