by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Feb 9, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe with Patricia H. KushlisThe U.S. and Cuba have been negotiating the terms for normalizing relations. This means it’s not too early to think of what an appropriate American public diplomacy strategy might look like. The most visible stumbling...
by Reza Akhlaghi | Jan 8, 2015 | Monitor
Charles Crawford CMG is a public speaking and negotiation expert. He worked for 28 years in the U.K. Diplomatic Service, including three postings as British Ambassador to Sarajevo, Belgrade, and Warsaw, before starting a private consulting career in communication...
by Matt Armstrong | Jan 5, 2015 | Monitor
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...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jan 5, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeI wish I were still in the foreign service. This serendipitous conjunction of US and Russian foreign policy makes for a beautiful public diplomacy message: as Vladimir Putin’s Russia fights viciously to hold on to Ukraine, its uppity Cold War...
by Matthew Wallin | Dec 16, 2014 | Monitor
Forget the year ahead. Successful public diplomacy planning for 2015 must take into account 2016, 2017, 2018, and the decades to come. In 2014, the myriad challenges the United States faces in the public diplomacy (PD) field mounted and still continue to grow. Many of...