The Hindu Times reports that CPD Fellow, Shashi Tharoor, has been elected to the Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram.

On May 7, 2009, A China Stakes article about China's rising soft power quoted remarks made by CPD University Fellow and Director of the USC Master of Public Diplomacy Nicholas Cull, to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing last week. To read more of Cull's testimony, click here.

A poll conducted by CPD Visiting Professor Eytan Gilboa of Bar-Ilan University shows that young Israelis are more suspicious of US President Barack Obama and his policies than older Israelis, that most Israelis would support a strike on Iran, and that the Israeli public is less fond of the new US president than they are of America. The poll results were carried widely on CBS News, The Jerusalem Post and Y Net.

On April 30, 2009, Nicholas Cull, CPD University Fellow and Director of the USC Master of Public Diplomacy Program, participated in a US-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing on "China’s Propaganda and Influence Operations, Its Intelligence Activities that Target the United States, and the Resulting Impacts on U.S. National Security." To read Cull's testimony, click here.

CPD Director Geoffrey Wiseman, CPD University Fellow Philip Seib and Master of Public Diplomacy students quoted extensively in a Daily Trojan article about the effect of the Obama administration on America's image, in particular the reversing of previous torture policies.

CPD Fellow John Brown writes about the need for appointee McHale to convince skeptics that she is not a Democratic clone of Karen Hughes in The Guardian.

CPD Senior Fellow John Brown cautions against excessive focus on Web 2.0 techniques over face-to-face contact in Federal Computer Week article on Secretary Clinton's Digital Town Hall.