Public Diplomacy and Soft Power

Dr. Nicholas Cull, Professor of Public Diplomacy, discussed "Public Diplomacy and Soft Power: Governments, People, and Foreign Policy" at the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University.

Nicholas Cull joined the University of Southern California from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, where he was a professor of American studies and directed the Centre for American Studies. Cull's research and teaching interests are broad and interdisciplinary, centering on the developing academic discipline of public diplomacy, the role of culture, information, news, and propaganda in foreign policy. He is author of Selling America: U.S. Information Overseas, a history of the U.S. Information Agency (2005). And his first book, Selling War, was named by Choice Magazine as one of the best academic books of 1995. He is co-editor of Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500–present (2003) which was one of Book List magazine's reference books of the year, and co-editor of Alambrista and the U.S.–Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants (2004).

More information can be found at the Kennedy Center website.