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“Public Diplomacy in the News” is a CPD Blog series by Andrew Dubbins, featuring noteworthy recent stories in public diplomacy.

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David Ellwood of Johns Hopkins University argues the necessity for Britain to put more emphasis on soft power.

Queen Elizabeth II and royal family return from Trooping the Colour in 2018 with Admiralty Arch in the background

The late Queen demonstrated that the strongest soft power synthesizes a culture's tradition with modernity.

Crown on British flag. Flag by kjpargeter via freepik.com. Crown via clipart-library.com.

Season 2 of a podcast co-hosted by Nicholas J. Cull and Simon Anholt.

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A podcast co-hosted by CPD Faculty Fellow Nicholas J. Cull and Good Country Index founder Simon Anholt.

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University of Oxford PhD candidate Warren Stanislaus shares a case study of a recent Black History Month project.

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John Casson is a British diplomat and former UK Ambassador to Egypt, a post he served from 2014 to 2018. During this time, he connected with millions of Egyptians through his Twitter account, gaining more than 250,000 followers—about one in three of all Twitter users in Egypt.

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