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Part 3 – Speaking of futures: Presuppositions
Part 1 - Speaking of futures: Story-capsules | Part 2 - Speaking of futures: Que será, será Any given subject can be framed in many ways – as the arts make manifest – yet all too often, we resort to the...
Part 2 – Speaking of futures: Que será, será
29 May 2024
Artificial Intelligence, Diplomatic functions and tools, Infrastructure, Internet governance and digital policy, Negotiations, Persuasion, Types of diplomacy
Part 1 - Speaking of futures: Story-capsules | Part 3 – Speaking of futures: Presuppositions When Doris Day sang Que será, será / Whatever will be, will be / The future's not ours to see / Que será, será in t...
Part 1 – Speaking of futures: Story-capsules
22 May 2024
Part 2 - Speaking of futures: Que será, será | Part 3 – Speaking of futures: Presuppositions Diplo, true to its avant-garde spirit, has just launched a cutting-edge course on futures literacy, designed an...
The diplomatic consequences of Mrs Sacoolas
02 February 2024
On 8 December 2022, appearing by video link at the Old Bailey in London, Anne Sacoolas, US citizen and wife of an intelligence officer at an American diplomatic communications hub at Croughton in the English...
‘Soft power’ is nothing more than influence
16 November 2023
Diplomatic theory and practice, Academic diplomacy, Public diplomacy, Soft power diplomacy, Types of diplomacy
The term ‘soft power’ (and its siblings ‘hard power’ and ‘smart power’), employed to embrace a particular category of resources of potential power, originated in the stable of Joseph S. Nye Jr, a Harvard U...
