Announcements

In a new report released by the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Nicholas J. Cull, CPD University Fellow and Director of the USC Master of Public Diplomacy program, and Meg Young (MPD '08), Consulate Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, are quoted on the public diplomacy impact of India’s 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, respectively.

CPD University Fellow Douglas Thomas and USC visiting scholar and advisor to the provost John Seely Brown have just released their new book on the culture of learning in the 21st century.

CPD Director Philip Seib participated on a panel discussing social media's contribution to global instability which was organized by Media Entertainment Technology Alpha Leaders (METal).

Welcome to the December/January issue of PDiN Monitor, CPD's electronic review of public diplomacy in the news. This issue focuses on the topic of WikiLeaks: America's Cablegate.

CPD University Fellow and Associate Professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, Jay Wang's new book, Soft Power in China: Public Diplomacy through Communication, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of their Global Public Diplomacy series.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy in cooperation with Deutsche Welle released a report on "China in the News: A Comparative Analysis of the China Coverage of BBC World Service, CNN International, and Deutsche Welle".

In the most recent paper from the CPD Perspectives series, Donna Marie Oglesby examines the role the public plays in global climate change politics, using the 2009 climate change negotiations in Copenhagen as a primary example.

On December 10-11, Philip Seib, CPD Director, Nicholas Cull, CPD University Fellow and Director of the USC Master of Public Diplomacy Program and Eytan Gilboa, CPD Senior Scholar held workshops at the Public Diplomacy in the Information Age Conference & Workshops, hosted by CMS Academy, in New Delhi, India.

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