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Back Issues of PDAA Today

Back issues of PDAA Today, PDAA’s quarterly print newsletter are now online and available for download.

Program Addresses “Promoting Democracy in a Turbulent World”

By Bill Wanlund

Promoting democracy – a perennial US foreign policy component – has become problematic. Democracy has seen a global decline in the past decade, according to Freedom House and other monitoring organizations. Complicating the challenge for our diplomats, the United States is no longer automatically the world’s go-to democracy role model: Persisting […]

“Perception Hacking” and “Information Laundering” Discussed at First Monday Forum

by Joe B. Johnson

Participants in the July 6, 2020, First Monday Forum heard from Bret Schaefer (upper right), of the German Marshall Fund, discuss “perception hacking” by China, Russia and Iran. Dr. Sherry Mueller (lower left) and Joel Fischman (lower right) represented the Public Diplomacy Council and the Public Diplomacy Association of […]

Public Diplomacy Critical at a Perilous Time

by Joe B. Johnson

Distinguished scholar Nancy Snow, who teaches at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies in Japan and holds the Walt Disney Chair at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University in Beijing, warned against cutting ties with China at First Monday Forum on June 1.

Professor Sherry Mueller introduced Prof. Nancy Snow at the […]

Virtual First Monday Recording Added to PDAA Video Channel

The recipients of this year’s Awards for Achievement in Public Diplomacy were featured in a Virtual First Monday program on May 4, 2020. To view the recording, go to https://vimeo.com/414943292

PDAA has added a new recording to its video channel on Vimeo. The new recording presents the “Virtual First Monday” forum that took […]

April 20 Virtual Program – Health Public Diplomacy and COVID-19

PDAA invites you to a virtual meeting Monday, April 20, 2020, on “Health Public Diplomacy and COVID-19.” The program will take place at noon and replaces our original program scheduled to take place at DACOR-Bacon House.

Kia Henry

Michael Zeltakalns

The speakers are Kia Henry, a health public diplomacy […]

POSTPONED: April 20 Program to Focus on Covering Foreign Affairs in a Changing World

Well known journalists Paul Richter and Karen Tumulty will speak at the April 20, 2020, PDAA lunch on the topic of Covering Foreign Affairs in a Changing World.

Paul Richter is one of two speakers at the April 20 PDAA luncheon.

Richter, who is also the author of a new book, […]