Good afternoon, welcome to the first monday, the first working monday in january. This is a partnership of three organizations. My name is adam powell, i am the director of washington operations of the university of Southern California Annenberg Center for communication leadership and policy. Im also president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in these events. He third partner is the Public Diplomacy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization ere to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you. If i could take a moment to just highlight three events that many of you will be interested in. The office of the historian of the department of state is putting out the volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States, the documents for Public Diplomacy from 1961 to 963. Which is the kennedy period when many of us date back to. They are going to be releasing it, 20 at the door. You do have to sign up in advance. I think
Southern california Annenberg Center for communication leadership and policy. Im also president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in these events. The third partner is the Public Policy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization here to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you. If i could take a moment to just highlight three events that many f you will be interested in. The office of the historian of the department of state is putting out the volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States, the documents for Public Diplomacy from 1961 to 1963. Which is the kennedy period when back to. S date they are going to be releasing it, 20 at the door. You do have to sign up in advance. I think it will be a very interesting exploration of the histry of Public Diplomacy. Secondly, one of the things pdaa does is provides awards for the diplomacy t public work that department of state, public dimcy officers are doing. W
Good afternoon and welcome to the first monday, the first working monday in january. This is partnership of three organizations. My name is adam powell. I am the director of washington operations of the university of Southern California and president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in the monthly event. The third part any is the Public Policy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization here to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you and if i could take a moment to just highlight three events that many of you will be interested in. The office of historian of the department of state is putting out the volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States. The documents for Public Diplomacy from 1961 to 1963, which is the kennedy period when many of us date back to. You have to sign up in advance and i think it will be a very interesting exploration of the history of Public Diplomacy. Secondly, one of the things p
To the first monday, the first working monday in january. This is partnership of three organizations. My name is adam powell. I am the director of washington operations of the university of Southern California and president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in the monthly event. The third part any is the Public Policy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization here to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you and if i could take a moment to just highlight three events that many of you will be interested in. The office of historian of the department of state is putting out the volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States. The documents for Public Diplomacy from 1961 to 1963, which is the kennedy period when many of us date back to. You have to sign up in advance and i think it will be a very interesting exploration of the history of Public Diplomacy. Secondly, one of the things pdaa does is provides awards
The discussion included assessments of fdr, jfk, George H W Bush and will, as well as their russian counterparts. This is about one hour and 20 minutes. We have a great panel. Philip will chair the panel. He has written a terrific book on the end of the cold war, the principal author of 9 11 commission report, and many other books. He is right now in the middle of writing a great book on sort of decisions for war in ways that illuminate old crises and old decisions, like going to war in 1898, or wilsons decision for war in world war i. He is brilliantly reassessing these decisions, and were looking forward to his next book. At the same time, he is doing about a dozen other things that none of us can keep track of. And that we dont always know about. I amsurg to say that we need to wait for james wilson to show up. [laughter] he is probably up there somewhere having a very good nation. If we get send the search party out a very good conversation. [laughter] thise of the messages of [ind