Center for Strategic Communication

Public Diplomacy’s ‘Missing Years’

There was a time before USIA when the U.S. Government practiced what we now call public diplomacy. This period is often forgotten or ignored.  For too many, the history of U.S. public diplomacy begins with the establishment of United States Information Agency, or...

Fact Sheet – The United States Information Agency

The United States Information Agency (USIA) ran America’s public diplomacy efforts from 1953 until it was disbanded in 1999. What did it do? Who were the key figures? Whatever happened to it? This fact sheet takes a look at some of these issues, telling a brief...

He Chose those Words for all Mankind

With the saddening news of Neil Armstrong’s passing this weekend, my thoughts returned again to the public diplomacy power of NASA and the American space program. The field of space exploration is one in which the U.S. has reigned supreme since the Apollo crew’s famed...