PD Magazine Launch Reception

The Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars (APDS) and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy were proud to host a reception celebrating the launch of PD Magazine, the world's first magazine focused on public diplomacy issues.

The inaugural issue, themed "New President. New Public Diplomacy?", features articles from Benjamin Barber, Nicholas Cull, Kristin Lord of the Brookings Institution and Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation. It also features interviews with Former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy James Glassman, USAID Director of Public Diplomacy for Middle Eastern and Middle East Partnership Initiative Affairs Walid Maalouf, Andy Pryce of the British Embassy in Washington, DC and Ambassador Edward Djerejian.

About PD Magazine

PD is a publication of the Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars at the University of Southern California, with support from the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and the USC School of International Relations.

Its unique mission is to provide a common forum for the views of both scholars and practitioners from around the globe, in order to explore key concepts in the study and practice of public diplomacy. PD is published bi-annually, with an accompanying web magazine.