In Part 2 of a two-part blog, guest blogger and UK-based freelance journalist Alex Oxborough asks that you give journalists something to work with.
By Editor on 15 Aug 2012 | From the E-diplomacy channel
In Part 1 of a two-part blog, guest blogger and UK-based freelance journalist Alex Oxborough looks at how to get your communication in the news.
By Editor on 15 Aug 2012 | From the E-diplomacy channel
Blogging is at its best when it generates a conversation that elicits new ideas and garners new perspectives. Earlier this month, Diplo’s Hannah Slavik did just that when she posted a blog asking whether we can teach 20 000 students at the same time.
By Aldo Matteucci on 14 Aug 2012 | From the Looking Sideways channel
Michael SANDEL – a professor of justice at Harvard, has written a book on the issue of “whether money should be allowed to buy everything”[1]. I did not like the book much – long on hoary examples (over 100) of money being allowed to intrude in areas where money was excluded until now.
By Aldo Matteucci on 10 Aug 2012 | From the Looking Sideways channel
US President George W. BUSH, in an address to a joint session of Congress on 20th September 2001 uttered this essentialist statement. He was borrowing from a very long religious[1] and philosophical[2] tradition.
By Aldo Matteucci on 9 Aug 2012 | From the Looking Sideways channel
I’ve followed – with mild though lingering interest – the development of fusion technology. A nuclear engineer friend of mind introduced me to its potentials in the late 60s.
By petecranston on 9 Aug 2012 | From the Home channel
The US embassy in Rome over the past seven years is probably one of the best vantage points from which to survey the growth of eDiplomacy and its impact on diplomats and their work.
By Editor on 9 Aug 2012 | From the Internet Governance channel
Starting with the 2013 programme, you can study Internet governance (IG) as a specialisation area of the Master/Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Diplomacy, offered by DiploFoundation in collaboration with the...
By Aldo Matteucci on 9 Aug 2012 | From the Looking Sideways channel
Pity the Swedish Ambassador to Belarus HE Stefan ERIKSSON. He is an “old hand”, accredited to the country since 2005. He speaks the language fluently and has come to know the country deeply as well as become a “major public figure”.
By Aldo Matteucci on 8 Aug 2012 | From the Looking Sideways channel
John KEEGAN, the great historian of warfare[1], just died. After studying warfare all his life he came to the startling conclusion: “Keegan’s book serves as a potent counterpoint to—and more, refutation of—popular claims by scientists such as Richard WRANGHAM and Edward O.