Soft Power: Talking to the People
Watching current international events unfold, we increasingly see how foreign policy acknowledges the role of the public in politics. Since the 1990s scholars have used the term "soft power" to...
View ArticleMedia Without Borders
We are unstoppable when it comes to communicating. “Communicate” means “to share” and it comes as second nature (it’s socially addictive in fact). The 300 million of us blogging can rarely be...
View ArticleWeekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.By The People (America.gov)Civil Society and Social Media“The term “civil society” can seem almost as...
View ArticleTransparency and Volatility: A New Era in International Relations
The accelerated changes in communication flows are posing both opportunities and challenges in the global system. A recently published book entitled ‘Diplomacy, Development and Security in the...
View ArticleWhy I’d like to believe that a robot cannot do what I do
What follows is something that arrested my attention the other day. Around the febrile atmosphere that has developed between officials from Greece and officials from partner EU states and other...
View ArticleHow civil society and others achieved the Paris Climate Agreement
A brilliant analysis by Michael Jacobs of the success factors behind last year’s Paris Climate Agreement appeared in Juncture, IPPR’s quarterly journal recently. Jacobs unpacks the role of civil...
View ArticleWeekly wire: The global forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysisRecode Kleiner Perkins...
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