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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.

Ben Bradlee – The Reluctant Public Diplomacy Officer

Benjamin C. Bradlee (Miguel Ariel Contreras Drake-McLaughlin/Wikimedia Commons)

Michael H. Anderson

30 November 2014. Washington and, indeed, much of the world, recently paid tribute to the legendary Ben Bradlee, the Executive Editor of The Washington Post from 1968 -91, who passed away October 21, 2014. His role in managing his paper’s sensitive relations with […]

Russian Propaganda Subject of December First Monday Forum

(Blogs.State.gov)

27 November 2014. Russian Propaganda Along the Western Border is the topic of the next Public Diplomacy Council/USC first Monday lunch forum, on Monday, 1 December 2014 at AFSA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Speakers include Jeffrey N. Trimble, Deputy Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau and Alen Mlatisuma, Internet Managing Director of […]

Russia Cancels FLEX Youth Exchange Program

Lisa Choate, at February 4 PDAA lunch program (A. Kotok)

5 October 2014. Russia canceled its participation in an American high-school exchange program after a teenage Russian boy in Michigan sought political asylum claiming fear of persecution at home for being gay. The Future Leaders Exchange or FLEX program that sponsored the child’s […]

Russia’s Influence and Propaganda on Ukraine Topics of September PDAA Program

A panel including Jarek Anders, at lectern, discussed Russia and Ukraine before a packed house at PDAA’s September 8 lunch program.

Updated: 20 September 2014.

PDAA kicked off its fall season with a topic that could not be timelier – Russia and Ukraine – looking not so much at the state of the […]

World Opinion on U.S. Leadership Improves in 2013, but Still Down from 2009

(USCIS.gov)

26 May 2014. Surveys in 130 countries through 2013 show world opinion about U.S. leadership rebounded last year from 2012, but levels were generally lower than the start of the Obama administration in 2009. The findings were contained in the fifth annual U.S. Global Leadership Report, compiled and published by Gallup and […]

Responding to Russian Propaganda Featured at First Monday Discussion

26 May 2014. The next Public Diplomacy Council/USC First Monday Lunch Forum takes place on Monday 2 June at 12:00 pm, where two experts on media in Eastern Europe will tell about efforts by international broadcasters to penetrate Russian media depictions of events in that part of the world. The speakers are Nenad Pejic, Interim […]