Sweden: An Old Hand At Gastrodiplomacy
One of the most successful and reliable tactics of diplomacy is negotiation, an act that often takes place over lunch or dinner when everyone...
Seven reasons why the public sector should use more video
Public sector use of video could reduce costs and improve employee engagement. Photograph: Newmann/zefa/Corbis
The latest civil service employee survey shows that engagement across Whitehall...
A year on GOV.UK – HMRC’s experience
Robin Riley, HMRC Head of Digital Engagement and project lead for HMRC’s corporate content on GOV.UK.
This week marks exactly one year since HMRC moved...
Comments on text Does social media really bring us closer to the reality of...
A Buzzfeed list of 27 "heartbreaking" images of the Venezuelan protests was created, and shared by progressive activists around the world. Perhaps those activists...
Does Social Media Really Bring Us Closer To The Reality Of Conflict?
When I was 19 I read about Plato's Theory of Forms. The theory, crudely put, argues that everything exists in a metaphysical realm in...
Jamie Oliver and the Gastrodiplomacy of Simulacra
By Francesco Buscemi
This work aims to investigate the gastrodiplomatic objectives of food travelogues on TV, and more precisely of the food travelogue Jamieʼs Great...
War and Peas: Culinary Conflict Resolution as Citizen Diplomacy
By Sam Chapple-Sokol
Food can be used as a tool of public diplomacy, variously known as culinary diplomacy, gastrodiplomacy, and diplomatic gastronomy. It remains a...
Cooking Up A Conversation: Gastrodiplomacy in Contemporary Public Art
By Carly Schmitt
Food is one of the oldest forms of exchange. Our mutual dependence on food is often cited as the most basic element...
A politician’s guide to winning the Internet (and influencing people)
It used to be easy to get the American public to pay attention to presidents. You could get the nation huddled around their radio...
Gastrodipomacy: The Case of the Embassy of Greece
Gastrodipomacy: The Case of the Embassy of Greece
By Zoe Kosmidou
In December 2013, the Embassy of Greece will begin applying the idea and theories of...