CPD Welcomes Stefanie von Hlatky

Stefanie von Hlatky, Assistant Professor at Queen’s University in Canada and the Director of the Queen’s Center for International and Defence Policy (CIDP), joins the USC Center on Public Diplomacy for the spring 2016 semester as the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy. She will pursue her research on NATO’s public diplomacy and teach in USC’s Master of Public Diplomacy program. 

Von Hlatky is the founder and current Chair of the Board of Women in International Security-Canada. She holds a doctorate in Political Science from Université de Montréal, where she was also Executive Director for the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies. Von Hlatky was a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies and a policy scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. in 2010. During her time as a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College’s Dickey Center for International Understanding in 2011 and prior to joining Queen’s, von Hlatky was a senior researcher with the Center for Security Studies at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.  

Von Hlatky’s research will examine the public justifications of war, as articulated by states and military alliances, focusing on the case of NATO. Both states and organizations invest considerable resources in building their soft power in order to achieve their objectives through persuasion, rather than coercion. This project will measure the compatibility of public diplomacy efforts between NATO and its member states during recent military interventions.

For von Hlatky’s full bio, click here.

To see a list of previous Canadian-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chairs in Public Diplomacy (among other Visiting Scholars), please click here.