I am writing today from the world city of London.

Nicholas J. Cull, CPD University Fellow and Director of the Master's of Public Diplomacy Program at USC will speak at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on "Public Diplomacy: Its General Foundations & Evaluating China’s PD" on Sunday, March 18, 2012.

Azerbaijan's authorities have intensified their efforts to improve the country's image abroad, hiring PR companies and lobbyists around Europe to burnish its image. Lavish business meetings and events ostensibly dedicated to culture are meant to boost the country's image abroad...

Peter Frisch, a senior political analyst at the European External Action Service...recommended that the EU work with Arab nations to develop more solid tourism strategies, ensure that democratic leaders stay in power, use public diplomacy to talk to the people and reach out to them...

The U.S. international broadcasting landscape will look different following the resignation of a key leader, budget cuts and recommendations by its main governing board to consolidate administrative services and reduce language services.

The Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Select Committee is holding an investigation into British Foreign Policy and the Arab Spring...Lord Malloch-Brown has got plenty to say about ‘electronic solidarity’ and the uprisings, the inapplicability of the Marshall Plan analogy...

As Americans, we like to imagine our country as we think of ourselves: open-hearted and welcoming; efficient and practical; easygoing, above all...Whatever foreigners think of the American experiment, though, it’s unlikely the experience of crossing our border has made them think better of it.