September 12, 2019

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, Mexican Undersecretary for North American Affairs Jesús Seade, COMEXI, and the Pacific Council recently hosted the inaugural meeting of the Mexico-Los Angeles Commission (MEXLA), representing a rare level of collaboration between a foreign national government and a U.S. city government that will focus on deepening the cultural, economic, and people-to-people ties between the two regions.

September 9, 2019

If the United States is concerned about its fraying relationship with Turkey, it is time to reinvest in public diplomacy, ensure there is mutual listening, and increase educational and cultural exchanges, writes Senem Çevik.

August 13, 2019

Pacific Council member Lorraine Schneider discusses her work, how emergency management has grown as a field over the past two decades, and which global issues impact preparedness around the world.

July 19, 2019

Former Mexican Consul General in LA Carlos García de Alba recently sat down with the Pacific Council's Spring 2019 Communications Project Fellow Gemma Stewart for an interview in USC’s Public Diplomacy Magazine to discuss Mexico’s deep connection with Los Angeles and monumental moments throughout his career.

June 27, 2019

The Pacific Council has partnered with a new organization called the Leadership Council for Women in National Security, which has garnered pledges from 15 presidential candidates to seek gender parity in their senior-level national security appointments. Learn more about the organization and hear from co-founder Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley.

Esperanto

June 26, 2019

Those of us who optimistically believe in technical and social progress cannot afford to remain on the fence in terms of globalism—in the building bridges across cultures sense of the word—but rather need to reignite a sense of hope about the world and humanity’s common fate, writes Alex Alben.

June 20, 2019

Today, on the 10th anniversary of Neda Agha-Soltan’s murder by an Iranian sniper in Tehran, her story remains alive, showing that governments—no matter how powerful and repressive—cannot wholly control what their own people and global publics can learn about their actions, writes Phil Seib.

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