Announcements
CPD Research Fellow Anoush Rima Tatevossian (2010-2012) and MPD alum ('09) will be joining the United Nations Global Pulse project as the new Strategic Communications Officer.
In the second paper released in 2011, CPD Director Philip Seib advocates for public diplomacy tools to be incorporated into counterterrorism strategies.
The Presidential Management Fellows Program selected Melanie Ciolek, Renee H. Lee, and Brian Tenenbaum as finalists from the MPD Class of 2011.
On April 4 and 5, Philip Seib, CPD Director, and Nicholas Cull, CPD University Fellow and Director of the USC Master of Public Diplomacy Program, attended the international conference on Israel's Global Image Crisis: Public Diplomacy and Communications Strategies organized by Bar Ilan Center for International Communication. The Center for International Communications is directed by CPD Senior Scholar Eytan Gilboa.
Jan Melissen, Head of the Diplomatic Studies Program at the Clingendael Institute of International Relations and Sook Jong Lee, President of the East Asia Institute, have just released a new volume, Public Diplomacy and Soft Power in East Asia by Palgrave Macmillan in the series on Global Public Diplomacy.
CPD Assistant Director for Research and Publications, Naomi Leight, will be participating on a panel, organized by BINA LA, discussing the impact of film and culture in Israel’s public diplomacy strategy.
Welcome to the March issue of PDiN Monitor, CPD's electronic review of public diplomacy in the news. This issue focuses on the topic of Faith Diplomacy: Religion and Global Publics.
On March 23, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy released a Media Monitor Report on Faith Diplomacy: Religion and Global Publics. The Media Monitor began on October 1, 2010, tracking coverage of religion as it pertains to foreign policy, new technology and public diplomacy.