Richard T. Arndt Prize

Dr.ย Elisabeth Piller

Dr.ย Elisabeth Piller (Univ. Freiburg) received the 2025 honorable mention for Selling Weimar: German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918-1933ย (2021, Franz Steiner Verlag). While much attention has been paid to Cold War US cultural diplomacy efforts toward Germany, very little has focused on Germanyโ€™s use of public diplomacy to shape US views in any period. […]

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Dr. Nicholas Cull

Dr.ย Nicholas Cullย (USC) is a 2025 winner forย Reputational Security: Refocusing Public Diplomacy for a Dangerous Worldย (2024, Polity Press). A theoretical rethinking of the relationship between realpolitik and โ€œsoft powerโ€ for the 21st century, supported by a convincing array of historical and current examples. This book argues that, particularly in the context of todayโ€™s radically different media

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