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On May 7, 2009, A China Stakes article about China's rising soft power quoted remarks made by CPD University Fellow and Director of the USC Master of Public Diplomacy Nicholas Cull, to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing last week. To read more of Cull's testimony, click... >

A poll conducted by CPD Visiting Professor Eytan Gilboa of Bar-Ilan University shows that young Israelis are more suspicious of US President Barack Obama and his policies than older Israelis, that most Israelis would support a strike on Iran, and that the Israeli public is less fond of the new US president than they are of America. The poll results were carried widely on... >

On April 30, 2009, Nicholas Cull, CPD University Fellow and Director of the USC Master of Public Diplomacy Program, participated in a US-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing on "... >

CPD Director Geoffrey Wiseman, CPD University Fellow Philip Seib and Master of Public Diplomacy students quoted extensively in a Daily Trojan article about the effect of the Obama administration on... >

CPD Workshop: Celebrity Diplomacy is discussed in the Variety article entitled "Celebrity Diplomats: Results, Please..."

CPD Fellow John Brown writes about the need for appointee McHale to convince skeptics that she is not a Democratic clone of Karen Hughes in The Guardian.

CPD Fellow Reza Aslan Pens New Book on God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror entitled How to Win a Cosmic War.

CPD Senior Fellow John Brown cautions against excessive focus on Web 2.0 techniques over face-to-face contact in Federal Computer Week article on Secretary Clinton's Digital Town Hall.

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