The coffeehouse, whether it’s a street-side stall in California or a quiet cafe in Washington, D.C., tells its own version of ...

Osaka was no exception. Japanese culture has a famously idiosyncratic relationship with religion. While both Shinto and ...

CPD named Francis Fukuyama, acclaimed political scientist and one of the most influential thinkers in international relations, as the 2025 recipient of the Excellence in Public Diplomacy Award.

Few things bind people more immediately and indelibly than food. That is the premise of this year’s World Expo in Milan: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. Several countries have recognized the ...

Improving and innovating cultural exchanges requires understanding the experiences and impact for international visitors as well as host communities. Delivering a distinctive experience to ...

The CPD Blog is intended to stimulate dialog among scholars and practitioners from around the world in the public diplomacy sphere. The opinions represented here are the authors' own and do not ...

The CPD Blog is intended to stimulate dialog among scholars and practitioners from around the world in the public diplomacy sphere. The opinions represented here are the authors' own and do not ...

The CPD Blog is intended to stimulate dialog among scholars and practitioners from around the world in the public diplomacy sphere. The opinions represented here are the authors' own and do not ...

A couple more examples: Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson of the MFA of Russia, is well-known for deliberately avoiding tactful, impersonal, and moderate diplomatic language. Her way of talking to the ...

Publications by diplomats are a form of public diplomacy since they are geared, by definition, towards an open audience, thus also helping shape public opinion.

The CPD Blog is intended to stimulate dialog among scholars and practitioners from around the world in the public diplomacy sphere. The opinions represented here are the authors' own and do not ...

In this series, CPD interviews international thought-leaders as well as key practitioners of public diplomacy and related professional fields to provide our readers with insight into the inner ...