Prompt: Reputation Audit

We all sometimes need to check up on what is published about us (or a friend, colleague, or potential partner) online. While you can certainly ask Claude or another LLM to do your research, it will work far better if you tell it exactly what you are after... Wayan Vota

Principles of PD: Conclusion

Contemporary public diplomacy is neither a static practice nor an exhaustive set of principles. The complexity of the international information environment, the difficult policy options that face policymakers and practitioners, and the myriad ways to align ends, ways, and means to achieve results mean that the theory and practice of

Principles of PD: The Profession and Craft of Public Diplomacy

"Metaphors give words a way to go beyond their own meaning. They are handles on the door of what we can know and of what we can imagine. Each door leads to some new house and some new world that only that one handle can open. What’s amazing

Principles of PD: How Public Diplomacy Works

To achieve U.S. policy objectives, advance long-term goals, and promote U.S. national interests, the modern public diplomacy section must be able to plan and implement PD interventions to affect the attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors of priority foreign audiences. To do this, PD practitioners engage with foreign audiences that

Principles of PD: Policy, Strategy, and Tactics

A. What is policy? How states decide to use their power is a matter of policy. Will the state expend its financial, personnel, and natural resources on securing a contested border with a neighboring country? Will it build a military with primarily defensive or offensive capabilities? Will it use its

Principles of PD: Chapter I - Power, Statecraft, and Diplomacy

A. The international system and the information environment States (and other actors) operate in a changing context. Since the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, the international system has been organized around sovereign states that do not interfere with each other’s internal matters and interact with each other through treaties and

Principles of PD: Scope, Intent, and Introduction

Scope and Intent Scope PD Foundations is the cornerstone project developing foundational principles that guide the practice of public diplomacy (PD) at the Department of State. This volume of PD Foundations lays out the central argument for understanding the logic of public diplomacy in the contemporary world; its relationship to

PD Foundations: Principles of Public Diplomacy

This index provides navigation for the "Principles of Public Diplomacy" volume of PD Foundations, the State Department's foundational doctrine for contemporary public diplomacy practice. Overview "Principles of Public Diplomacy" outlines the practice of contemporary public diplomacy and its contribution to U.S. foreign policy

PD Foundations: Public Diplomacy in Practice

This index provides navigation for "Public Diplomacy in Practice," the implementation volume of PD Foundations providing practitioners with foundational concepts, tools, and processes for day-to-day PD work. Overview "Public Diplomacy in Practice" provides a primer on the foundational concepts that practitioners need to implement and improve

PD in Practice: Appendix I -   Debrief templates

Appendix I:  Debrief templates Closing out a project is a critical step in the process.  Project debriefs can take place in a facilitated meeting or in writing.  If it’s done in a meeting, ensure you have a facilitator and notetaker (ideally, people who are not themselves involved in debriefing

PD in Practice: Appendix H -  PD officer transition plan

Outgoing responsibilities for a departing PD officer It is the responsibility of officers to ensure a smooth transition for their successors by leaving the office prepared for the arrival of the new officer.  It is the responsibility of the new officer to reach out and ensure there is adequate information

PD in Practice: Appendix G -  Planning assumptions

PD practitioners often have to make plans and decisions with incomplete information.  You may be uncertain about such things as the availability of staff time, funding, the Ambassador’s schedule, or the state of local affairs.  Key planning assumptions should be both made explicit throughout the planning process and reassessed