Announcements
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy will kick off its 2012 Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy at USC on July 23. The professional training program will run through August 3.
CPD University Fellow and Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism Ernest J. Wilson III argues that the high-tech sector needs to start playing a role in U.S. foreign economic policy in his article “Silicon Valley Needs a Foreign Policy,” published in Foreign Affairs on June 20.
CPD Advisory Board Member and CEO of Phoenix Pictures Mike Medavoy receives Outstanding Achievement Award at the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival.
"Media Diplomacy and U.S.-China Military-to-Military Cooperation" is the fifth issue of CPD Perspectives on Public Diplomacy for 2012. Written by CPD University Fellow Thomas Hollihan and doctoral student Zhan Zhang, the paper examines the nature of American and Chinese military engagement, and the ways in which they use news media as a space for argumentation of their foreign policy perspectives.
CPD Director, Philip Seib, discussed his latest book Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era at The Heritage Foundation.
The April/May issue of PDiN Monitor focuses on the BRICS Countries and Public Diplomacy.The use of public diplomacy by the five emerging global powers varies from nation to nation, making for an interesting analysis of how public diplomacy functions as a group and separately for the BRICS countries.
Philip Seib emphasizes the importance of public diplomacy to China’s rapidly expanding global diplomatic efforts.
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is now accepting submissions for a special Water Diplomacy edition of its CPD Perspectives series. CPD is accepting essays between 2,500 and 3,500 words in length and case studies that are 1,000 words in length.