Welcome to the Diplo Wisdom Circle community. Browse through our DWC articles and join the discussions via comments!
A brief history of Yoga diplomacy
22 June 2022
Contemporary diplomacy, Cultural diplomacy, Cultural diversity, Diplomacy, 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...
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...
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...
Strategies of modern-day small states
06 January 2022
A general, yet to a certain extent incorrect, feeling in international relations is that smaller states are weaker than large or medium-sized states. Many factors shed light on this school of thought, including t...
Digital accessibility in Kenya after COVID-19
16 December 2021
When the COVID-19 outbreak was first announced in Kenya in March 2020, panic began as people saw the effects of curfews and the closing of offices, businesses, and schools. Three days after the initial information r...
Of topoi and memes
20 April 2021
I’ll admit to a prejudice. I dislike Richard Dawkins, the emeritus professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. Holding such a pompous title is enough to warrant a demerit. Dawkins is broadly known fo...
Violent left and right: Which is more dangerous?
03 February 2021
We condemn the violent left and right. Are the threats equivalent? Is one more dangerous? Let’s reflect – in compact fashion. 1. Both share an ideology of a ‘desirable’ hierarchical social order...
The abuse of analogies: Upon reading the article ‘Reading the CCP Clearly’
20 January 2021
The pivoting argument in the article ‘Reading the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] Clearly’ by Perry Link (The New York Review of Books, 11 February 2021 issue) on US policy toward China is the topos of appeasement...
All there is to know in international relations
26 December 2020
Some see two black faces, Some see a white vase. A few see them both. Both sides mock the relativists. It is all a matter of the right imagination... [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOgFZfRV...
