Announcements
The Arab Spring is the topic of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy’s latest Media Monitor report. The report looks at the unprecedented revolution in five key nations – Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Bahrain – and considers the wide-ranging implications for public diplomacy.
Nicholas J. Cull, CPD University Fellow and Director of the Master's of Public Diplomacy Program at USC spoke at Paris' leading school on international affairs,SciencesPo, about the future of public diplomacy.
In her review of Craig Hayden's The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts, CPD Summer Institute Alum Emily Metzgar notes that the book is "a well-researched discussion of soft power and its application in the name of public diplomacy." The book is one of Hayden's contributions to the academic study of public diplomacy.
New book features analysis from scholars that assesses the channel’s origins, politics, global audience, and coverage of conflict and the Arab spring.
The February issue of PDiN Monitor focuses on The Future of Public Diplomacy and will introduce a new structure for CPD's regular analysis of public diplomacy in the news. Beginning this month, CPD will graph overall trends in public diplomacy news aggregated daily in PDiN.
On Monday, February 27, 2012, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD) hosted a major research conference on Water Diplomacy which sought to address three public diplomacy objectives in the area of water diplomacy: listening, implementation and policy development.
Philip Seib discussed Al Jazeera in the wider context of media and security during a Canadian Security Intelligence Service conference.
CPD University Fellow, Professor Jian (Jay) Wang, together with Shaojing Sun, associate professor of the School of Journalism at Fudan University, have penned the second issue of CPD Perspectives in Public Diplomacy for 2012. "Experiencing Nation Brands: A Comparative Analysis of Eight National Pavilions at Expo Shanghai 2010".