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Books
Buck Song Koh. (Jan 2011). Brand Singapore: How Nation Branding Built Asia’s Leading Global City. Marshall Cavendish Business.
Ahmet Bayraktar and Can Uslay, eds.. (Jul 2016). Global Place Branding Campaigns across Cities, Regions, and Nations. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran. (Sep 2006). Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. Alfred A. Knopf, Random House.
Gregory Allen Pigman. (Feb 2015). Trade Diplomacy Transformed: Why Trade Matters for Global Prosperity. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan.
David Milne. (Sep 2015). Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux .
Journal articles
Benjamin Leffel. (Jan 2020). Animus of the Underling: Theorizing City Diplomacy in a World Society. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy. 502-522.
Richard Stren and Abigail Friendly. (Aug 2017). Toronto and São Paulo: Cities and International Diplomacy. Urban Affairs Review. SAGE Publications1-30.
(Aug 2017). City Diplomacy. Public Diplomacy Magazine. Los Angeles: Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars (APDS)
Shixin Ivy Zhang, Yi Wang, Nancy X. Liu, Yat-Ming Loo . (Apr 2020). Ningbo city branding and public diplomacy under the belt and road initiative in China. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy.
Ulla Hakala and Arja Lemmetyinen. (Feb 2013). ‘Culture is the Message’: The Status of Cultural Capital and its Effect on a City's Brand Equity. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan
Essays
Rogier van der Pluijm with Jan Melissen. (Apr 2007). City Diplomacy: The Expanding Role of Cities in International Politics. Clingendael Diplomacy Papers. Netherlands Institute of International Relations..
Jacob McCarty. (Sep 2019). Cities are the future: We need to coordinate their international diplomacy. The Hill.
Michele Acuto. (Apr 2013). World Politics by Other Means? London, City Diplomacy and the Olympics.
Alyssa Ayres. (Apr 2020). Scale Without Power: Global Cities in the World’s Largest Democracy. Diplomatic Courier.
Manuela Zechner and Bue Rübner Hanson. (Apr 2016). More Than a Welcome: The Power of Cities. Open Democracy.
Reports
Jay Wang and Sohaela Amiri. (Apr 2020). Building a Robust Capacity Framework for U.S. City Diplomacy. USC Center on Public DiplomacyUSC Center on Public Diplomacy.
Ian Klaus. (Jan 2020). Global Cities in 2020 – 10 Trends to Watch. Chicago Council on Global AffairsChicago Council on Global Affairs.
Kyle Hutzler. (Jan 2020). America's Cities on the World Stage. USC Center on Public DiplomacyUSC Center on Public Diplomacy.
(Apr 2007). A Global City: Drawing New Aspirations (Annual Report). Ministry of Information, Communications and the Art of Singapore.
Speeches
Oct 1964 - Recorded Address at the Overseas Press Club.
Multimedia
Apr 23, 2018 - CPD's Podcast Series
Jun 11, 2018 - Exploring City Diplomacy
Nov 26, 2013 - WATCH: City Branding & Barcelona.
Nov 26, 2013 - City Branding & Barcelona
Oct 19, 2017 - Glasnost & Goodwill: Cold War Citizen Diplomacy
CPD Blog
Cultural Diplomacy & the City: Part Two by Sascha Priewe on Jan 30, 2020
Toward City Diplomacy 2.0 by Sohaela Amiri on Apr 8, 2021
Sinclair Lewis and City Diplomacy by Craig Simon on Sep 20, 2022
Using City Diplomacy to Address Policing Reform and Racial Justice by Joel Day on Oct 5, 2020
PD News
Post-Oil City: The History of the City’s Future (Dexigner) on Sep 16, 2011
Culver City Sister City Committee Celebrates Golden Jubilee (Culver City Patch) on Jan 15, 2013
Fort Worth Sister Cities City Budget Cut Justified (Fort Worth Star Telegram) on Aug 24, 2009
Sister Cities Program Unites Big Cities Around the World (Digital City) on Sep 14, 2009
Cities Aim to Think, Solve Problems Globally (Next City) on May 27, 2015
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