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. >.
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.
Smith-Mundt Belatedly Enters the 21st Century
WEBThe Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, more commonly known as the Smith-Mundt Act, both established congressional authorization for State Department information diplomacy efforts, and—as amended—prohibited transmission to the American people. It certainly created the impression that this information was too dark or dangerous ...
WEBOpening Night Keynote Address February 4, 2010 Vaughan Turekian, Director, Center for Science Diplomacy, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Dr. Vaughan Turekian began his keynote speech at the opening dinner
Soft Power, Emotion, and the Future of Public Diplomacy
WEBNov 18, 2019 · Public diplomacy is fundamentally about developing and handling relationships between a state and its foreign publics. Part of this process involves persuasion, which Joseph Nye has shown is an important component of soft power—the ability to influence foreign publics to accept or agree with the foreign policy agenda of the state in question.
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 ...
Public Diplomacy and the Role of a Public Affairs Officer
WEBJan 8, 2015. In this video, high-ranking State Department officials talk about public diplomacy and the role of Public Affairs Officers. They explain why it is crucial for the United States to engage with foreign publics, connect with them, exchange ideas and cultures, and foster two-way communication. Richard Stengel, Undersecretary for Public ...
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 ...
Civic Imagination for Social Change - USC Center on Public …
WEBDec 5, 2016 · Civic Imagination for Social Change. This past summer, representatives from the University of Southern California’s Civic Imagination Project -- myself, Sangita Shresthova, and Gabriel Peters-Lazaro -- spent three weeks participating as instructors in the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change. Since the end of …