Public policy
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Uber car crash: limits of autonomy and questions of responsibility
News of a fatal crash involving a prototype self-driving Uber car and a pedestrian recently made tech headlines across the world. The incident, which took place in Arizona in March this year, marks the first casualty ...
[guest post] Evaluating public participation in diplomacy – part two
25 March 2016
Diplomatic theory and practice, Public diplomacy, Public policy
The complexity of international relations has forced states to change how they conduct diplomacy institutionally. There has been growing debate about the proliferation of a kind of diplomacy that occurs through the ac...
[Guest post] Evaluating public participation in diplomacy
17 February 2016
Diplomatic theory and practice, E-government, Public diplomacy, Public policy
‘The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless’, remembered Vaclav Havel in his assumption that power is something held and exerted by...
Democratizing ‘public space’ – 266
20 November 2013
Democracy, Diplomatic theory and practice, Multistakeholder diplomacy, Public policy
I have attended a seminar on the subject of “Democratizing public space”. This is the text of my intervention. I argued, somewhat paradoxically, that “public space” is shaped by “what is not seen” more tha...
Training and courses
Resources
2011
Diaspora Diplomacy: Philippine Migration and its Soft Power Influences
Diaspora Diplomacy: Philippine Migration and its Soft Power Influences is about the remarkable and untapped soft power that international migrants possess and how various sectors-from governments, NGOs, business, and international organizations- could tap this valuable... Read more...
2009
Australia’s Diplomatic Deficit: Reinvesting in Our Instruments of International Policy
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2008
The emergence of international public opinion and the origins of public diplomacy in Japan in the inter-war period
The emergence of international public opinion and the origins of public diplomacy in Japan in the inter-war period. ... Read more...
2007
The rhetoric of public diplomacy and propaganda wars: A view from self-presentation theory
Efforts by governments to affect foreign public opinion through direct communication – and in competition with rival governments – have been a stable and consistent feature of international diplomacy since the turn of the twentieth century. ... Read more...
2004
Commercial Diplomacy and the National Interest
This short and lively book lays out the why and the how of promoting US business abroad. America's place in the world depends more than is usually acknowledged on the vigor and global reach of American business. The United States is the world's leading exporter, the wo... Read more...
