Stephen Cohen to Discuss Pakistan at March 6, 2012 PDAA Event
Stephen P. Cohen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and long considered one of America's foremost experts on South Asia, will offer his views on U.S.-Pakistan relations, including policy and public diplomacy challenges, at the next Public Diplomacy Alumni Association luncheon program on Tuesday, March 6, at the DACOR-Bacon House in Washington, DC. Walter Douglas, who recently returned from Islamabad, Pakistan, where he served as Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs in the U.S. Embassy and is now on a year's detail assignment at CSIS, will join the discussion following Dr. Cohen's remarks. More ...
PDAA to Visit VOA on Feb. 28, Get Briefing On USG-Supported Overseas Broadcasting
Times have indeed changed for USG-supported international broadcasters. If the words Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty make you think of the snap, crackle, and pop of short wave radio, then think again, and plan to attend PDAA's February 28 briefing and tour at VOA, 10:00 am to noon. PDAA members and their guests will have the opportunity to hear and see first-hand today's international broadcasting. More ...
World Learning to Honor Sen. Leahy
World Learning, formerly Experiment in International Living, will honor Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont with its second annual Distinguished Global Citizen Achievement Award on February 16 in Washington, D.C. More ...
New on the Public Diplomacy Alumni Blog
Jim Jensen waxes poetically about USIA lateral-entry requirements circa 1961.
Public Diplomacy Advisory Commission Abolished
From the Web page of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy: "The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, the Government’s only body dedicated to overseeing and promoting Government activities that intend to understand, inform, and influence foreign publics, has not been reauthorized by the Congress. As a result, the Commission concluded its business on December 16, 2011, and the office has been closed." More ...
A Way with Words: Books by USIA Authors
Recently added ... The Unforgiving by Ernesto Uribe. More ...
Smart Power and Citizen Diplomacy
Sherry Mueller, who until recently led the National Council of International Visitors, discussed at PDAA's 30 November program the role of citizen diplomacy in public diplomacy and how that role might be expanded in the future. More ...