public diplomacy
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The State Department's assessment of public diplomacy engagement with American Spaces around the world.
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As part of its commitment to building the academic field of public diplomacy, CPD will award $2,500 to an emerging scholar engaged in cutting-edge research on public diplomacy.
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Season's greetings from CPD.
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Tara Ornstein writes about a new humanitarian diplomacy initiative that documents the scores of migrants who go missing each year.
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Applications are due January 15, 2018.
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USC professor and prolific author on his new book, As Terrorism Evolves.
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How does the world see the U.S. and when standing in the heartland, is that view different? A CPD-University of Oklahoma event.