bruce gregory
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media & Public Affairs
Phone: (202) 994-0389
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: BGregory@gwu.edu
Office: MPA 410
Expertise
Public diplomacy, strategic communication, media and national security, national security strategy and process, U.S. international broadcasting
Courses Taught
SMPA 140, Media and Foreign Policy
SMPA 190, Information, Media, and National Security
SMPA 194, Public Diplomacy, Governance, and Democratization
SMPA 210, Media and International Relations
SMPA 270, Graduate Seminar on Public Diplomacy & National Security
Selected Works
Bruce Gregory, "Public Diplomacy and National Security: Lessons From the U.S. Experience," Small Wars Journal, posted by SWJ editors, August 14, 2008.
“Public Diplomacy and Governance: Challenges for Scholars and Practitioners,” in Andrew F. Cooper, Brian Hocking, and William Maley, eds., Global Governance and Diplomacy: Worlds Apart? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
"Public Diplomacy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the U.S. Experience," remarks at a Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Seminar on Counterterrorism, Geneva, Switzerland, April 28-29, 2008.
“Public Diplomacy as Strategic Communication,” Chapter 17, 336-357 in James. J.F. Forest, ed., Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century, vol. 1 (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007).
"Upgrading Public Diplomacy's Tools - New Challenges, Old Realities," remarks at a NATO Public Diplomacy Workshop, Brussels, Belgium, July 2-3, 2007.
"Discourse Norms in Public Diplomacy: Necessary and Artificial Fault Lines," remarks at a panel on Ethics in Public Diplomacy, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) 2006 Convention, San Francisco, August 5, 2006.
"Now That It's Part of a Global Conversation, Should We Keep the Term Public Diplomacy?" paper presented at the Centre for International Governance Conference on Worlds Apart? Exploring the Interface Between Governance and Diplomacy, Wilton Park, UK, June 25, 2006.
"Not Your Grandparents Public Diplomacy," remarks at a public diplomacy retreat for Canadian diplomats, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa, November 30, 2005.
"Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication: Cultures, Firewalls, and Imported Norms," paper presented at the American Political Science Association Conference on International Communication and Conflict, Washington, DC, August 31, 2005.
Background
Bruce Gregory is an adjunct assistant professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs.
He is a member of the Defense Science Board's 2007 and 2004 studies on Strategic Communication, the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Public Diplomacy, the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs, and the Public Diplomacy Council. He was the Council's executive director from 2001-2004.
Gregory served on the National Defense University's faculty from 1998-2001 where he taught courses on information, media, and national security at the National War College. From 1985-1998, he was executive director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Prior to retiring after 34 years of government service, he served as coordinator on the Department of State's Response to Terrorism Coalition Working Group on Public Diplomacy and as the State Department's executive secretary on the Defense Science Board's 2001 Task Force on Managed Information Dissemination.
He has also taught strategic communication at the Naval War College and public diplomacy at American University's School of International Service and lectured at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute, the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the National Defense Intelligence College, and the National Defense University's Information Management Resources College and Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
He is a recipient of the Department of State's Superior Honor Award and was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.
Listserv
Bruce Gregory compiles an annotated list of resources on public diplomacy and related subjects that is circulated periodically by email to academic colleagues, government practitioners, research organizations, media organizations, and others who may be interested. To receive the list, send your email address to BGregory@gwu.edu.
For previous complilations of public diplomacy resources click here
Education
M.A., International Relations, American University, 1967
B.A., History, Barrington College, 1963