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This new report shares public diplomacy lessons learned over the past eight years and recommendations for the incoming administration.
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Zaiotti is the 2017 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Chair in Public Diplomacy.
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President Obama taps Markos Kounalakis to serve on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
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Early bird discounts are available for applications submitted by Feb. 3.
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A special holiday greeting from CPD.
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Help build the field of public diplomacy and support our programming in 2017 and beyond.
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Find out what CPD has been up to this semester in our fall 2016 issue of Inside CPD.
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Submit your abstracts by TODAY (March 15) to the June conference on Digital & Public Diplomacy.