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Latest articles
Intercultural communication and logical fallacies
05 September 2022
Contemporary diplomacy, Cultural diversity, Diplomatic theory and practice, Intercultural communication, Language and diplomacy
This blog is the first in a series in which I explore intercultural communication through the lens of logical fallacies, linking each fallacy to a current trend or event. I have chosen fallacies in the first instan...
Wreckers are as important as builders
02 August 2022
I was reading Eric Hobsbawn’s excellent eulogy on Tony Judt this rainy morning. One sentence struck me. Speaking of the end of the Communist system, this Marxist historian stated: The real heroes of the period [i...
Diplomacy as poetry
17 July 2022
Ambiguity, Diplomatic theory and practice, Language and diplomacy
Can poetry help diplomacy? A joke, surely! Poetry and diplomacy are worlds apart and have nothing in common other than using language as a medium. Diplomacy is devoid of poetry unless, that is, we count the allitera...
A brief history of Yoga diplomacy
22 June 2022
Contemporary diplomacy, Cultural diplomacy, Cultural diversity, Health diplomacy, Intercultural communication, Nation branding, Public diplomacy, Sports diplomacy
Yoga, said Narendra Modi at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September 2014, is not just exercise. \'By changing our lifestyle and creating consciousness, it can also help us deal with climate change.\'...
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...
