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

“Expo 2025 Viewpoints” features essays and photographs by USC Master of Public Diplomacy students who toured the Expo in Osaka, Japan.

Few things bind people more immediately and indelibly than food. Take a look at our list of some of the most active and thoughtful gastrodiplomats around.

According to Boin et al., public leadership during times of crisis must be prepared to address four distinct stages: sense making, in which participants try to grasp the nature, severity, and likely ...

Note from the CPD Blog Manager: This post was adapted from a real exchange between CPD Faculty Fellow and Master of Public Diplomacy Program Director Nicholas J. Cull and a student interested in the ...

Find out how and why the U.S. government went about creating the ministry of of propaganda (CPI) by joining us on January 28th.

The Short+Sweet Theatre Festival shows what citizen diplomacy can achieve.

Improving and innovating cultural exchanges requires understanding the experiences and impact for international visitors as well as host communities. Delivering a distinctive experience to ...

Russia has increased its public diplomacy efforts in recent years. As Martin Krag and Sebastian Åsberg argue in a recent article for the Journal of Strategic Studies, not all of those efforts are ...

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security ...

Foreign ministries have been actively involved in national efforts to stem the coronavirus outbreak.