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25 Year Anniversary Special Blog Series: Looking Back and Struggling Forward
Written by: Barry Fulton When we launched the Public Diplomacy Institute (PDI) in the year 2000, we imagined a collaboration with the Public Diplomacy Council, a non-profit organization consisting primarily of retired Foreign Service Officers, and two GWU schools: The...
Reflections on IPDGC’s Origins, Vision, and Future
Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication (IPDGC) George Washington University 25th Anniversary Conference, November 6, 2025 Keynote Address Written by: Bruce Gregory Congratulations to Babak and the IPDGC team for organizing this timely and important...
25 Year Anniversary Special Blog Series: The Last Three Feet: An Idea Ever Popular
Written by: Efe Sevin, esevin@towson.edu Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication brought scholars and practitioners together in a two-day conference to mark its 25th anniversary and to discuss the future of public diplomacy. I had the pleasure of being...
25 Year Anniversary Special Blog Series: Russia’s Investment in Dual Track International Engagement: Sharp Power and Public Diplomacy
Written By: Yelena Osipova-Stocker Public diplomacy – the process by which international actors communicate their culture, values, and policies to engage foreign publics and accomplish foreign policy goals – has always rested on one essential ingredient: trust....
25 Year Anniversary Special Blog Series: The Future of Soft Power and Strategic Narratives
Written By: Ben O’Loughlin …it is a national security imperative for the United States to achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance. (Trump, cited in 2025 US AI Action Plan) What does that sound like to the rest of the...
