Insight and Analysis from Foreign Affairs Practitioners and Scholars
Established 1996 • Raymond F. Smith, Editor
by Yale Richmond A retired public diplomacy professional describes a unique form of public-private collaboration in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. –Ed. The visit of Warren H. Phillips, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, to Poland, in 1960 … Read more
Review by Ambassador (ret.) William A. Rugh, Ph.D.
The United States and Public Diplomacy: New Directions in Cultural and International History, edited by Kenneth A. Osgood and Brian C. Etheridge, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Leiden, 2010, 380 pp.
Reader Comments on “The Future of Public Diplomacy” http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2010/0103/an_mchalefuture.html From: Ambassador (ret.) William A. Rugh, Ph. D. Board member, The Public Diplomacy Council I have just read over Judith McHale’s new plan, and I am disappointed. It’s underwhelming. After all … Read more
Review byWilliam A. Rugh
Kathy R. Fitzpatrick, The Future of Public Diplomacy: An Uncertain Fate, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/Brill Academic, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-9004177208, 307 pages
Review by Dennis M. Murphy
Nancy Snow and Philip M. Taylor (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy New York and London: Routledge Publishers, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-415-95302-3, 408 pp.
Review by John H. Brown, Ph. D.
Philip Seib, editor, Toward a New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-230-61744-5, 257 pp.
from Thomas K. Pickering, Henry E. Catto, David I. Hitchcock, Stanley M. Silverman, Fred A. Coffey Jr.
Structures and Strategies Needed by Sam Holliday Defense Secretary Gates recently called for a build-up of American “soft power” instruments in order to better combat the long-term threats we face from Islamic extremists. In this essay, a frequent American … Read more
The following article by a University of Texas history professor is taken from the October 14, 2005 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education and reprinted by permission of the author. Professor Pells deals with important and pertinent public diplomacy issues which … Read more
This observer noted with more than a little sadness the death this past July 7th in Virginia of retired ambassador Davis Eugene Boster, a colleague on a Foreign Service tour years long gone by. I did not have the privilege … Read more
The author discusses why U. S. public diplomacy is a “mess” and how to clean it up. Mr. Helmke is a senior professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. These remarks were made at the Public Diplomacy Institute … Read more