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CPD is proud to announce the release of Toward a New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy. Edited by CPD Director Philip Seib, the book is a compilation of essays on reinventing American public diplomacy and foreign policy.

CPD University Fellow Nicholas Cull will deliver the presentation "Public Diplomacy: What Should Korea Do?" on August 13, at the 2nd Korea Foundation International Conference on Nation Branding in Jeju, Korea.

CPD Director Philip Seib delivered the opening keynote entitled "Transnational Journalism, Public Diplomacy and Virtual States" at a July conference sponsored by the International Communication Association and the University of Melbourne.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School kicks off its 2009 Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy on Sunday, July 19, 2009.

On July 1, the Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars at the University of Southern California released its Summer 2009 issue of PD magazine, Middle Powers. Who they are. What they want.