USC Center on Public Diplomacy
WEBPlanning for the Future: PD 2034. On June 17, 2024, Paul Kruchoski explored how public diplomacy practitioners are adapting to a rapidly changing, complex environment and the skills and resources needed to prepare PD practitioners for the future. >.
Shawn Powers - USC Center on Public Diplomacy
WEBShawn Powers is Chief Strategy Officer (Acting) of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, a body authorized by Congress to oversee and promote U.S. Government activities that intend to understand, inform, and influence foreign publics.
Socially Distanced Diplomacy: The future of soft power and public ...
WEBTo download a PDF of this report, click here. Socially Distanced Diplomacy: The future of soft power and public diplomacy in a fragile world. A new critical issues report published by Sanctuary Counsel and CPD: "Socially Distanced Diplomacy: The future of soft power and public diplomacy in a fragile world" seeks to shed light on emerging challenges and opportunities as a result of the COVID-19 ...
What is PD? | USC Center on Public Diplomacy
WEBPublic diplomacy is the practice of engaging with foreign audiences to strengthen ties, build trust, and promote cooperation. It is a key mechanism through which nations foster mutual trust and productive relationships and has become crucial to building a secure global environment. The public, interactive dimension of diplomacy, public diplomacy is global in nature and involves a multitude of ...
The Feminist Was a Spy | USC Center on Public Diplomacy
WEBThe Feminist Was a Spy. Oct 29, 2015. by. Markos Kounalakis. COMMENT. Print as pdf. Gloria Steinem’s new book, My Life on the Road, recounts her life’s journeys and travels. Early reviews and profiles reveal incredible detail of Steinem’s barrier-breaking feminist role, liberal politics, romances, proclivities and style.
Reimagining Exchange: The Local Impact of Cultural Exchanges
WEBJun 25, 2018 · Reimagining Exchange: The Local Impact of Cultural Exchanges. From the earliest days of statecraft, cultural exchanges informed foreign publics of the world beyond their borders. To this day, they remain of enduring importance as a means of promoting peace and mutual understanding while supporting foreign policy objectives.
What Sharp Power? It’s Nothing But “Unsmart” Power
WEBNov 15, 2018 · Sharp power is neither soft nor hard power—it is the product of an unskilled mixing of the two, or put simply, “unsmart power.”. This is not to coin a new term, but rather to make the point that no new term is needed. Since the term was created to safeguard the concept of “soft power” from being misused or even contaminated, comments ...
Citizen Diplomacy: An Emerging Soft Power Tool
WEBSep 7, 2016 · PD that is generated at the grassroots level is one of the most effective ways for countries to tell us who they are. Now an international phenomenon, Short+Sweet has presented about 5,000 original works of theatre, dance and music, each ten minutes or less, while showcasing the talents of about 3,000 writers and 25,000 actors, directors, composers, musicians, and dancers across the globe.
Smith-Mundt Belatedly Enters the 21st Century
WEBAdvocates of improving the U.S. government’s global communication capacity and thus its public diplomacy heaved a sigh of relief in January. The reason: When President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, he also signed into law the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, which contains a much needed overhaul of Smith-Mundt’s prohibition on domestic dissemination of the
1956 All That ... U. S. Public Diplomacy And Khrushchev’s Secret …
WEBMar 29, 2006 · "[T]hrough the press section of USIS that the Communist parties themselves represented at the Moscow Congress have come to know one of the most serious and dramatic documents in the Communist literature of the world." --Pietro Nenni, Secretary General, Italian Socialist Party, 1957 Given coincidence of the current on-going debate over the future of US public diplomacy and the fiftieth ...