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Turkish faith-based NGOs are harnessing a positive image for Turkey in recipient countries.

Guests at Tokyo Disneyland, 2010/via Flickr Creative Commons

A recent book from Martha Bayles, a lecturer in humanities at Boston College, tackles the question of how American entertainment industry products confound official U.S.

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Is anyone better positioned to ‘inform and influence’ international audiences today?

The best known example of public diplomacy broadcasting just ended. Did you notice?

Think of the First World War and what are the words that come to mind?

Read how one Nobel Prize-winning NGO gained enough PD power to motivate the international community to start solving the global TB crisis.

A House of Lords committee led by Lord Howell produced a major report on the UK’s ‘soft power’ last month

[From the Archives] It may now be time to swing for the fences and for Washington to increase quiet coordination with the Vatican.

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