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This article assess Japan's PD challenges, and offers five recommendations to improve its impact.
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A look at the benefits and challenges of Vatican foreign policy.
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This policy papers outlines four steps to improve U.S. public diplomacy communication strategies.
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From Black Lives Matter to LGBTQ discourse and the 2011 Arab Spring, this new article explores the use of social media in global advocacy campaigns,
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This new report from CSIS offers a comprehensive analysis of the competing global priorities and pressures needed to implement and achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals.
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How the VOA's style of reporting strengthens U.S. soft power.
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Bruce Gregory's first public diplomacy reading list of 2016.
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This new article discusses the interplay between power, politics and public diplomacy in Iran's use of soft power initiatives abroad.