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Latest articles
Hostile takeover: Foreign Office swallows Development ministry
25 July 2020
First it was the Foreign Office (FO), then it evolved into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), and today it becomes – as foreshadowed by Boris Johnson on 16 June – Britain’s ‘super-department for in...
A tale of influencers
22 July 2020
Behold America: A history of America First and the American Dream (Sarah Churchwell, 2018, p. 356): History is not ancestral memory or collective tradition. It is what people learned from priests, schoolmasters, t...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and the human condition
21 July 2020
Dr Jovan Kurbalija, conductor of the orchestra called DiploFoundation, proposed a project called HumAInism: Visionary governance for humanity with artificial intelligence. The main aim of the vision would be to find...
Where have all the health attachés gone?
14 July 2020
COVID-19 and Diplomacy, Diplomatic theory and practice, Health diplomacy, Public diplomacy
An influential article of 2014 noted that health attachés were appointed shortly after the Second World War and were thereafter assigned by \'a growing number of countries [...] to work in embassies in countries of ...
COVID-19 is not a bioweapon and it is dangerous to claim that it is!
07 July 2020
Disease grips humanity’s imagination with a chokehold. It distances people from each other and can create animosities between groups. The fear of disease trumps even war, since you can see guns and tanks. You cann...
