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Books
Christopher Paul, Jessica Yeats, Colin P. Clarke, Miriam Mattews. (May 2015). Assessing and Evaluating Department of Defense Efforts to Inform, Influence, and Persuade. RAND Corporation.
Phillip Seib. (Aug 2009). Towards A New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan.
Paul Sharp and Geoffery Wiseman, eds. (Jan 2012). American Diplomacy. Brill.
Jan Melissen, ed. (Dec 2005). The New Public Diplomacy: Soft power in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan.
Nicholas J. Cull. (Sep 2012). The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency. Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal articles
Alexander Buhmann and Erich J. Sommerfeldt. (Apr 2020). Drivers and barriers in public diplomacy evaluation: understanding attitudes, norms, and control. International Communication Gazette.
Erich J. Sommerfeldt and Alexander Buhmann . (Aug 2019). The status quo of evaluation in public diplomacy: insights from the US State Department. Journal of Communication Management.
Carissa Gonzalez. (Sep 2015). The Evaluation Revolution in Public Diplomacy. The Ambassadors REVIEW. Council of American Ambassadors36-43.
Robert Banks. (Sep 2011). A Resource Guide to Public Diplomacy Evaluation. CPD Perspectives on Public Diplomacy. USC Center on Public Diplomacy
(Jul 2008). An Evaluation of Alhurra Television Programming. USC Center on Public Diplomacy
Essays
Dr. Ali Fisher and David Montez. (Jun 2012). Evaluating Online Public Diplomacy using Digital Media Research Methods: A Case Study of #ObamainBrazil. Intermedia.
Matthew Wallin. (Aug 2012). The New Public Diplomacy Imperative: America's Vital Need to Communicate Strategically. American Security Project.
Robin Brown. (Jan 2017). Analyzing Public Diplomacies: Four Dimensions. Public Diplomacy, Networks and Influence Blog.
Robin Brown. (Feb 2016). The Secret of Public Diplomacy. Public Diplomacy, Networks and Influence Blog.
Thomas Miller. (Jan 2017). Hidden Successes in Public Diplomacy. Take Five. Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication, GW University.
Reports
Simon Anholt. (Jun 2016). The Good Country Index. The Good Country Index.
Christopher Paul. (Jan 2017). Assessing and Evaluating Department of Defense Efforts to Inform, Influence, and Persuade: Worked Example. Santa Monica: RAND CorporationRAND Corporation.
(Sep 2018). Optimizing Engagement: Research, Evaluation and Learning in Public Diplomacy. US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, M&C Saatchi World Services US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, M&C Saatchi World Services .
(Mar 2017). Department of State: Foreign Language Proficiency Has Improved, But Efforts to Reduce Gaps Need Evaluation. U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. (May 2018). Optimizing Engagement: Research, Evaluation and Learning in Public Diplomacy.
Speeches
May 2006 - Quincy Jones on Cultural Diplomacy in China. (USC Center on Public Diplomacy.)
May 2013 - How to End the Forever War? (Oxford Union)
Aug 2016 - Edward Schumacher-Matos on Public Diplomacy.
Organizations
Multimedia
Jan 17, 2017 - Public Diplomacy and National Security: Lessons Learned for the Next Administration. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Feb 11, 2016 - Let's Get DiploDigital Live Stream from Rome
Dec 10, 2012 - WATCH: Measuring the Public Diplomacy of the Future
CPD Blog
Building an Evaluation Approach for Evaluating Arts and Soft Power by Ian Thomas on Jan 27, 2021
British Council on Evaluating Arts & Soft Power Programming by Ian Thomas on Jan 19, 2018
Exploring Arts, Evaluation, Soft Power and Cultural Relations by Ian Thomas on Jul 8, 2019
PD News
GAO and US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy discuss evaluation tools (MountainRunner (blog)) on Jul 23, 2010
Measurement and evaluation of Public Diplomacy (The Public Diplomacy Blog) on Apr 4, 2011
Evaluating the US Smart Power Strategy in Pakistan (Pakistan Today) on Dec 6, 2014
What Angola Can Tell Us About CPD’s Youth & Evaluation Initiatives (CPD Blog) on Dec 18, 2015
A notional model for evaluating public diplomacy (MountainRunner) on Oct 8, 2010
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