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...

Ukraine and Cuba: What a Contrast!

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...

The Year(s) Ahead in Public Diplomacy

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...