scholarship
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Deadline extended to June 30 to apply for one of these prestigious grants.
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Congratulations to the three recipients of the 2016-2017 CPD Dissertation Awards.
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Applications are due May 15.
For years, governments and foundations have used scholarships as instruments of diplomacy. The Brits have Rhodes and Chevening, the Americans have Marshall and Fulbright, and the Australian government has created a lot of goodwill in its neighbourhood through the New Colombo Plan.
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Aleksandra Sasa Gorisek and Vanessa Leon receive the 2015-2016 CPD Doctoral Dissertation Grants.
Having recently returned from the International Studies Association (ISA) conference in Toronto, I wanted to share some thoughts with the PD community, and particularly the scholars who for some reason or other couldn’t attend.
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Having recently returned from the International Studies Association (ISA) conference in Toronto, I wanted to share some thoughts with the PD community, and particularly the scholars who for some reason or other couldn’t attend. For those who aren’t familiar, ISA is the major annual conference where PD scholars convene, particularly through the International Communication (ICOMM) and Diplomatic Studies divisions. ISA has around 5,000 participants, of which the regular faces working on PD comprise of less than one percent.
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New Year resolutions are already aplenty, but we at CPD thought you might still be interested in knowing our goals for the year ahead.