Reinventing Public Diplomacy Through Games Awards Ceremony

Monday, May 8, 2006 3:00PM with a reception to follow Venue: Davidson Center, USC Campus, 3415 S. Figueroa, LA Join the USC Center on Public Diplomacy as we announce the award winners of the Reinventing Public Diplomacy through Games Contest. Read More

Broadcasting in Cuba: The Martis are Castro’s Enemy Number One

According to the Reuters news agency, "Cuba today started 24-hour jamming in Havana of Radio Marti, the United States' Spanish-language station transmitted from Miami, and said it would extend the jamming to the whole island." That was back in May 1990. Read More

Public Diplomacy and the Ratings Game

"The success of any moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers," said American social reformer William Lloyd Garrison some 150 years ago. But times have changed. Read More

Al Jazeera International, Not Quite Ready for Takeoff

CAIRO - Those new monitors they're installing in Washington briefing rooms will remain dark for a little while longer: Al-Jazeera International (AJI), the English-language cousin to the Bush administration's Qatar-based nemesis, has once more delayed its launch plans. Read More

Public Diplomacy: Good News and Bad

There is good news and bad news in the world of public diplomacy. The good news is that respected observers and senior American officials are now paying more attention and trying to develop public diplomacy strategies. The not-so-good news is that they are getting it wrong. And the really bad news is that until America fixes its diplomacy both public and traditional, our national interests will continue to be badly compromised by precisely those institutions most responsible for protecting us. Read More

SAVE MAY 8th!!! The Reinventing Public Diplomacy through Games Contest Awards Ceremony!

Join the USC Center on Public Diplomacy as we cordially announce the awards-recipients of the Reinventing Public Diplomacy through Games Contest! When: May 8th, 2006 3:00-5:00 p.m. PST Where: Davidson Executive Conference Center University of Southern California 3415 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90089-0871 There will also be simulcast of the Awards Ceremony within Second Life! Stay tuned for more details! Read More

JFK Meeting with the US Ambassador to the Republic of Congo Edmund A. Gullion, 1961

"Public Diplomacy" Before Gullion: The Evolution of a Phrase

50 years after Gullion, Nicholas J. Cull looks at the origin of the term "public diplomacy." Read More

Al-Arabiya’s Ratings Lead Increases

The latest monthly television ratings in Saudi Arabia by the independent pollster IPSOS-STAT show al-Arabiya dramatically widening its lead over al-Jazeera as the number one satellite television news outlet for the Middle East. Read More

Public Diplomacy and Brand Image

The critical success factor for any government's public diplomacy function is whether its connection to policy making is one-way or two-way. Read More

Public Diplomacy and Branding

Delivered with equal measure of art and science, diplomacy is a non-violent approach to the management of international relations and global issues which seeks to resolve conflict through discussion, negotiation and partnership. The diplomats' brief is unambiguous: to advance or defend their country's political and economic place in the world by the most effective means. That is the purpose, the essence of diplomacy. Read More

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