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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...
Zheng He (1371–1433): China’s masterful mariner and diplomat
24 September 2023
(A fairy tale?) Ever since Gavin Menzies, a British retired naval officer, published the fictional story 1421: The Year China Discovered America, fleet admiral and diplomat Zheng He (1371–1433) has enjoyed a sort...
Examining human destiny: Ancient Greece vs Judeo-Christianity
19 August 2023
For 2000 years, we have read the Greek classics. We have done so in a peculiar fashion. Their gods were central to their worldview. We discarded their gods, which we despised as mere idols. In doing so, we’ve lost m...
Why do crowds riot?
04 August 2023
I’m indebted for this insight to Duncan J. Watts's book Everything is Obvious (Once You Know the Answer): How Common Sense Fails Us. History books are full of descriptions of riots and revolts, together with learned...
Diplomatic realism: Nixon, Kissinger, and Pakistan
27 May 2023
Kissinger demanded that Nixon stand firm [in supporting Pakistan]. 'If the outcome of this war is that Pakistan is swallowed up by India, China is destroyed, defeated, humiliated by the Soviet Union, it will be a chan...
Gender equality in diplomacy: Chinese and other foreign ministries
21 May 2023
Diplomatic functions and tools, Foreign ministries, Gender rights online, Public diplomacy
The Chinese Foreign Ministry made a welcome change in its external public outreach after 3 September 2021. While Chinese easily identify male and female names, foreigners lacking full mastery over the language (i.e., ...
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