Center Director, Joshua S. Fouts, quoted in Council on Foreign Relations analysis of Nation Branding: The 'Nation Brand' Marketplace

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Melody Lutz writes about CPD's "Diplomacy Island" in the Escapist.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is pleased to be co-recipient of a generous project grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Tabulating the results from the most heavily-voted video streaming poll ever on MSNBC.com, combined with votes by its illustrious VIP Jury and ThinkTank, FYI - FILM YOUR ISSUE today announced the five winners of the unprecedented national competition for 30-to-60 "issue films" from all U.S. residents 18 to 26 years old.

CPD is pleased to share with its readers the speech by Quincy Jones on Cultural Diplomacy, delivered in Beijing, China on May 26, 2006.

PeaceMaker took First Place in the First Games and Public Diplomacy Contest! All four finalists demonstrated their games for the esteemed panelists and in house audience at the awards ceremony. The event was simulcast in Second Life, where the attendance on Annenberg Island exceeded that at USC's Davidson Center.

Stephen Seche, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria, is the new State Department Diplomat-in-Residence at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. Seche will teach a fall semester course in the school’s new public diplomacy master’s program and advise graduate students interested in pursuing careers in foreign service.

Doctorow, who edits the widely read culture and technology blog site Boing Boing, will be the first to hold the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy.