Public Diplomacy Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Administration
The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law invites you to a panel discussion on “Public Diplomacy Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Administration” that will be held on Monday, November 17, from 9 am to 10 am in the Denius Room at the Harry Ransom Center.
The panel discussion is being co-hosted by the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (http://www.state.gov/r/adcompd/). The Commission”a seven-member bipartisan presidential panel charged by Congress with assessing the effectiveness of U.S. government public diplomacy programs and operations”is visiting Austin as part of its efforts to solicit advice from a wide range of groups about foreign perceptions of the United States and the implications of these perceptions for American foreign policy interests.
The panel discussants are Dr. Joshua Busby, Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs; Dr. Clement Henry, Professor in the Department of Government; and Dr. Peter Trubowitz, Associate Professors in the Department of Government. The presentations will be followed by a discussion with the Commissioners.
Joshua Busby is Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and a fellow with the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service as well as the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Dr. Busby was previously a research fellow at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School (2005-2006), the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s JFK School (2004-2005), and the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution (2003-2004).
Clement Henry is Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin and a Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. His research focuses on the Middle East and North Africa, where he has conducted research on political parties, the engineering profession, and financial institutions. He has written five books, including, most recently, Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East, with Robert Springborg. While working on research grants and teaching assignments, he has lived for more than a dozen years in Algiers, Beirut, Cairo and Rabat.
Peter Trubowitz is Associate Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin and a Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. His research focuses U.S. foreign policy and international relations. He is the author of Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy, which won the J. David Greenstone Book Award from the American Political Science Association, and The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests. He is currently writing a book on how presidents make grand strategy.