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After Merkel
20 February 2022
When Paul McCartney was coining the lyrics for \'Those Were the Days\', performed magnificently and with a touching romantic crescendo by Mary Hopkin, a young, bright, and promising student in Templin was dreaming o...
Space is available for every country
15 February 2022
This year is the 65th anniversary of the Cosmic Era. In the first years and decades, space exploration was reserved only for big countries. Reaching orbit and spacecraft programmes are now open to small countries, aca...
Why should diplomatic academies shift to online learning?
12 February 2022
A major outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe has been a surge in online distance learning. As they say, necessity is a great mother of both innovation and change. With schools, universities, and other e...
AI promises, ethics, and human rights: Time to open Pandora’s box
11 February 2022
AI and diplomacy, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Human rights
In 2021, I participated in the Artificial Intelligence online course offered by Diplo. In one of our online sessions, a passionate debate flared on the topic of the day: AI’s ethical and human rights implications. T...
Improving diplomatic institutions through technology
03 February 2022
Digital diplomacy, Diplomatic functions and tools, Diplomatic service, E-tools, Social media
Despite an increasingly globalised society, the institutions of diplomacy continue using traditional methods that can be improved by the simple use of new technologies. For example, embassies and ministries of foreign...
The US approach to offline and online threats and attacks on critical infrastructure by non-state actors
28 January 2022
Critical infrastructure, Cyberconflict and warfare, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity
The US government has increasingly identified critical infrastructure as a particularly attractive target for criminal and terrorist groups that seek to injure the state’s interests and capabilities. But what is c...
10 tendances en matière de diplomatie et de gouvernance numériques pour 2022
27 January 2022
En 2022, dix tendances vont s\'accélérer dans trois grands domaines d\'interaction entre le numérique et la diplomatie : la géopolitique et la géoéconomie numérique, les nouveaux sujets numériques dans les age...
10 Digital Governance and Diplomacy Trends for 2022
25 January 2022
Cette publication est disponible aussi en français. In 2022, ten trends will accelerate across three main areas of interplay between digital governance and diplomacy: digital geopolitics and geoeconomics, ...