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Season 2 of a podcast co-hosted by CPD Faculty Fellow Nicholas J. Cull and Good Country Index founder Simon Anholt.
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CPD Faculty Fellow Philip Seib writes about Kremlin's information warfare.
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Mark Kristmanson in dialogue with CPD Senior Research Specialist Sohaela Amiri on the value of sister city relationships during crisis.
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Vivian S. Walker, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy Exec. Dir. and CPD Faculty Fellow, describes the path to Ukraine telling its own story.
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Today's geopolitical dynamics rely on the communication environment, ushering in a new reality for public diplomacy.
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Vivian Walker reviews the 2020 Palgrave Macmillan book Russia’s Public Diplomacy: Evolution and Practice.
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Former CPD Dissertation award recipient Stanislav Budnitsky discusses Russia's new COVID-19 vaccine in the context of Russia's quest for technological advancement and international standing
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The act of one nation helping another can be largely symbolic, writes a researcher at National Research University Higher School of Economics.