PD Happenings: April 28 - May 4

This Week in PD is a weekly curated selection of public diplomacy-relevant news from a global cross-section of English-language media outlets, including independent, corporate-owned and state-sponsored sources.

Follow #TWiPD on Twitter Friday-Sunday for featured articles (in bold below).

Soft Power

• Successful Use of Public Diplomacy: Lessons from Canada - Modern Diplomacy
• NATO-Georgia Public Diplomacy Forum Is Being Held in Tbilisi - Agenda.ge
• Turkey’s Public Diplomacy for Political Goals in the Balkan Region - Modern Diplomacy
• Going Global 2018: Knowledge Diplomacy Must Be Used to Enrich the Global Public Good - Times Higher Education
• How India Uses Public Diplomacy: Lessons for Pakistan - Modern Diplomacy
• How Powerful Is Saudi Arabia’s Soft Power Push? - Frieze
• Most Latin Americans Can’t Name a Chinese Singer. Why That’s Great for Beijing. - America's Quarterly 

Youth Diplomacy

• Women Ambassadors Advise Students on Getting Ahead ‘In Man’s World’ - The Washington Diplomat
• Power of Youth - The Interpreter
• Foreign Service Stereotypes - CPD Blog
• Young Change-Makers Show the Impact of Soft Diplomacy - The Christian Science Monitor

Cultural Diplomacy

• When America's Hottest Jazz Stars Were Sent to Cool Cold-War Tensions - The Guardian
• Buddha Diplomacy: Pakistan Uses Its Inter-Religious Past to Build Modern Ties - Global Village Space
• Japanese Whisky Has Never Been Hotter. Here’s What Makes It So Distinctive. - The Washington Post

International Broadcasting

• K-pop Standing Down: South Korea to Remove Speakers that Blasted North Korea for Decades - USA Today
• Mainstream Media Discrepancies Between the U.S. and the UK - CPD Blog

Exchange Diplomacy

• U.S. Delegation of Museum Leaders Tours NYU Abu Dhabi Campus - The Gulf Today
• Floral Diplomacy: Celebrating Floriculture Industries of Netherlands and Sri Lanka - The Times Online

Opinion Diplomacy

• Diplomacy Without Diplomats - The Atlantic
• Trump's 'America First' Doctrine and the Waning U.S. Hegemony - Independent Australia

Digital Diplomacy

• Narendra Modi Twice as Popular on Facebook as Donald Trump, Says Report - Economic Times

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