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Tom Fletcher, CMG, is principal of Hertford College, Oxford. He is a former U.K. ambassador and 10 Downing Street foreign policy adviser to three...

The Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA) will host the 47th edition of the ‘International Forum on Diplomatic Training (IFDT)’ this week. The forum, which will...

Belarus has forced the closure of the U.S. Embassy’s Public Diplomacy and USAID offices in a move that comes amid the tensions with the...

On Monday, the “Generation Z” China-U.S. Youth Dialogue hosted by the China Public Diplomacy Association was held in Malipo County, Yunnan Province. Chinese Ambassador...

  Iz štampe je izašlo vredno i značajno delo ambasadora dr Duška Lopandića „Reči su senke dela – razvoj diplomatije i međunarodnih veza od XV...

Written by: Joanne Sweeney, CEO, Public Sector Marketing Institute and Author, Public Sector Marketing Pro Digital communications transformation in Government and public sector is shaking up traditional work practices, challenging leadership’s personal bias and re-framing the fundamental premise of ‘in the public interest’. Add in a global pandemic and you have no choice but to rethink digital diplomacy in a world where there are more people using social media than are not. The public interest, previously dictated by civil and public servants, politicians and policy makers, is increasingly in the hands of the people – those that Governments are there to serve – because of social media. The real battle online is attention But what does success actually look like online? In my view, there are seven core goals of digital diplomacy: Build public trust Generate citizen engagement Motivate the public to take a specific action based on factual information Communicate real-time public i..

23 Jul The Rise of Vaccine Diplomacy Posted at 14:09h in Diplomacy & Soft Power, UK Perspectives by Evie Aspinall Last summer, while citizens in Western nations enjoyed a relative reprieve from some of the stricter Covid-19 restrictions, behind the scenes major negotiations were taking place which would determine the course of the pandemic. Wealthier nations raced to place vaccine pre-orders, hoping to be among the first to vaccinate their populations and fully lift restrictions. Fast forward a year, and the majority of adults in Europe, the UK and the United States have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and restrictions are beginning to ease. In contrast, just 1% of citizens in low-income nations have received the first dose of their vaccine, and nations such as Tunisia and Indonesia, which had fared well in the first phase of the pandemic, have now been plunged into emergencies. With the immediate health crisis appearing to become..

In today’s digital media environment, how a story is told can be no less important than whether the story is true. Dmitry Chernobrov explores...

If you’ve ever been the recipient of persistent online trolling, then you know exactly how discombobulating it can feel. You might start to question...

The memory of World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as Russia calls it—occupies a cult-like status in Russian popular and political culture. At...