Digital Diplomacy

AAFSW: A Guide to Connecting Communities at Overseas Posts via Facebook and WordPress

– Domani Spero There was a time when embassy newsletters were distributed only in printed format. Do you remember that?  Later they were distributed as...

Public Diplomacy ….

By: Fergus Hanson "Our basic assumption is that we’ve all lost control of the information environment—the only option is to embrace the change and work...

The History of eDiplomacy at the U.S. Department of State ..

Despite the United States’ long history of innovation in the field of communications technologies, the State Department’s emergence as the world’s leading user of...

Baked in and Wired: eDiplomacy @ State .

By: Fergus Hanson eDiplomacy has dramatically changed the way diplomacy is being conducted. The State Department now communicates directly with more than 15 million people...

Sharing Sprint 14

With Sprint 14 now behind us, we wanted to share Baroness Martha Lane Fox’s opening speech, and the presentations and workshops given on the...

[Today in PD] 2013 Forum: The Future of Public Diplomacy

Thursday, February 13th 2014 In the future, more flexibility, risk-taking and reform will be required of public diplomacy practitioners and policy makers, our panel concluded. This...

Introducing our Winter 2014 Issue: Gastrodiplomacy

by Public Diplomacy Magazine Editors Food can communicate a country’s culture and heritage to the world.  From Korean kimchi to Spanish tapas to Peruvian lomo...

CPD contributors author new paper on public diplomacy and Kosovo’s diaspora *Jul 19, 2012

CPD contributors Behar Xharra and Martin Waehlisch have published a new paper on the topic of Kosovo's diaspora as a resource for public diplomacy....

[Today in PD] Sochi Flame Lighter Blames Racist Obama Tweet On Hackers

Irina Rodnina, the former figure skater who lit the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the Sochi Games, has claimed that a racist...

Terrorism: A Definition and Analysis

 How do you Define Terrorism? What are your Justifications for this Definition? In 1956 political theorist and philosopher Walter Gallie delivered a paper to the...