Announcements

The University of Southern California was honored with one of four inaugural Benjamin Franklin Awards for Public Diplomacy, a prestigious new honor bestowed by the U.S. Department of State. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice presented the award in a ceremony on April 8 in Washington, D.C.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School (CPD) is proud to announce the recent publication by Palgrave Macmillan of “The Diplomatic Corps as an Institution of International Society,” co-edited by CPD Acting Director Geoffrey Wiseman in conjunction with Paul Sharp of the University of Minnesota Duluth.

The newest edition of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science is devoted to Public Diplomacy and features several contributions from CPD fellows.

The Foreign Policy Association and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School, based at the University of Southern California are pleased to announce thefficult to regulate them or control their meaning. 

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is pleased to be co-recipient of a generous project grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Tabulating the results from the most heavily-voted video streaming poll ever on MSNBC.com, combined with votes by its illustrious VIP Jury and ThinkTank, FYI - FILM YOUR ISSUE today announced the five winners of the unprecedented national competition for 30-to-60 "issue films" from all U.S. residents 18 to 26 years old.

CPD is pleased to share with its readers the speech by Quincy Jones on Cultural Diplomacy, delivered in Beijing, China on May 26, 2006.

PeaceMaker took First Place in the First Games and Public Diplomacy Contest! All four finalists demonstrated their games for the esteemed panelists and in house audience at the awards ceremony. The event was simulcast in Second Life, where the attendance on Annenberg Island exceeded that at USC's Davidson Center.

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