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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.

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 […]

Countering ISIS Messages Topic of October Monday Forum

(carlisle.army.mil)

29 September 2014. Journalists will discuss ways of combating messaging by ISIS at the next USC Annenberg Center “first Monday” forum, hosted by the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and the Public Diplomacy Council. Featured speakers are Shameem Rassam, Executive Producer, Alhurra Iraq and Davin Hutchins, Director of Digital Content, Middle East […]

Richard Stengel: Public Diplomacy is a Conversation

27 September 2014. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Richard Stengel outlined his strategy and key issues facing practitioners of public diplomacy at State Department in remarks at a meeting of the American Security Project on 16 September. Excerpts from Stengel’s discussion and video (51:44) follow.

Public diplomacy is a conversation. It’s people talking […]

Panel Recommends Expanded Research, Risk-Taking for Data-Driven Public Diplomacy

(James Allenspach/Flickr)

20 September 2014. A panel of university faculty in public diplomacy recommends expanding research efforts State Department and BBG, both in the quantity of analytics conducted and its status in the organizations, to infuse more solid evidence into the public diplomacy decision-making process. The committee’s report, prepared for the U.S. Advisory Commission […]

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 […]

Public Diplomacy Morphs Into PR Following Merger

(State.gov)

Fred Coffey

Jane and I moved back to Denton, Texas in May leaving our many friends and a very important unfinished project. Several former USIA colleagues and I tried for nearly a decade to persuade the State Department to restructure the information (public diplomacy) operations to better serve our foreign affairs. Neither […]