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The editors of a Place Branding and Public Diplomacy special issue urge for more rigorous PD study.

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The editors of a Place Branding and Public Diplomacy special issue urge for more rigorous PD study.

CPD Research Fellow (2017-19) Diana Ingenhoff, Kadir Jun Ayhan (Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies Graduate School of International and Area Studies) and Efe Sevin (Towson Univ.) reveal key takeaways.

Kadir Jun Ayhan defines people-to-people diplomacy and outlines a typology in which to classify these interactions.

What differentiates political communication and public diplomacy? CPD Blog Contributor Kadir Jun Ayhan offers suggestions to better define PD 

Moon Jae-In's election in South Korea and the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics made people-to-people exchanges between the divided Koreas possible again.