Announcements
CPD Director Philip Seib is speaking at a workshop and panel discussion on social media’s role in the recent Middle Eastern and North African revolutions on April 27 at Princeton University.
CPD Research Fellow Lina Khatib (2010-2012) will be speaking on April 28th on “The Role of Political Strategy in Lebanon’s Political Crisis” at Stanford University.
PDiN Contributing Researcher Rachel Chan reviewed Koh Buck Song's latest book, Brand Singapore: How Nation Branding Built Asia’s Leading Global City.
CPD Research Fellow Anoush Rima Tatevossian (2010-2012) and MPD alum ('09) will be joining the United Nations Global Pulse project as the new Strategic Communications Officer.
In the second paper released in 2011, CPD Director Philip Seib advocates for public diplomacy tools to be incorporated into counterterrorism strategies.
The Presidential Management Fellows Program selected Melanie Ciolek, Renee H. Lee, and Brian Tenenbaum as finalists from the MPD Class of 2011.
On April 4 and 5, Philip Seib, CPD Director, and Nicholas Cull, CPD University Fellow and Director of the USC Master of Public Diplomacy Program, attended the international conference on Israel's Global Image Crisis: Public Diplomacy and Communications Strategies organized by Bar Ilan Center for International Communication. The Center for International Communications is directed by CPD Senior Scholar Eytan Gilboa.
Jan Melissen, Head of the Diplomatic Studies Program at the Clingendael Institute of International Relations and Sook Jong Lee, President of the East Asia Institute, have just released a new volume, Public Diplomacy and Soft Power in East Asia by Palgrave Macmillan in the series on Global Public Diplomacy.