IS ‘SOFT POWER’ THE NEW ‘HARD POWER’? HOW DO COUNTRIES SAFELY NAVIGATE THE STORMY SEAS OF THE 21ST CENTURY?
Twentieth-century history textbooks are dominated by one topic: war. Through- out this age, global society has been blighted by...
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Saulet Tanirbergen
Oct 19
AMERICA’S DECLINE OF SOFT POWER UNDER TRUMP - WILL BIDEN SUCCEED IN REGAINING IT?
''This is the time to heal in America,” was the proclamation of President-Elect Biden in his victory acceptance speech on November 7th....
Sasha Chua
Oct 19
CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN ASEAN - A BEACON OF HOPE FOR INTERCULTURAL PEACE AND COOPERATION?
''The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural”, Huntington (in)famously predicted in his...
PRATHAMESH JAGTAP
Oct 19
YOGA CULTURE - INDIA’S BIGGEST SOFT POWER
If China has Panda diplomacy, then India has Yoga! Today, some form of yoga is practised by over two billion people around the world....
JOHN MORGAN
Oct 19
FRANCAFRIQUE - FROM IMPERIALISM TO CULTURAL DIPLOMACY, A STUDY OF FRENCH INTERVENTION IN AFRICA.
Perhaps the most telling insight into the French political establishments’ view of its former African colonies was given by former...
Lea Wowra
Oct 19
DEVELOPMENTS IN ETHIOPIA - A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AWARDED TOO EARLY?
In 2018, Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s Prime Minister and the embodiment of hope for the East African region. In 2019, he received the...
Tim Rein
Oct 19
A CULTURE OF LISTENING - AFRICA SPOKEN BY OTHERS
Chinua Achebe, mostly known for his even-on-Obamas-reading-list book ''Things Fall Apart”, gives in his short essay “Traveling White” a...
AFEK SHAMIR
Oct 19
ISRAEL AND THE GULFSTATES - A HEAVENLY FUSION OF CULTURES OR AN OPPORTUNISTIC ALLIANCE?
The green pastures of the white house’s southern lawn presented the perfect symbol for a changing Middle East: hope. The last year...
Omar Khan
Oct 19
RUSSIAN REVIVAL - HOW IS THE KREMLIN USING CULTURAL DIPLOMACY TO EXPAND ITS SPHERE OF INFLUENCE?
''The greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” declared President Vladimir Putin in reference to the dissolution of the Soviet...
Anoushka Jha
Oct 19
REDEFINING DIPLOMACY - GERMANY AND ITS GLOBAL CULTURAL IDENTITY THROUGH THE LENS OF MIGRATION AND GLOBALISATION
This could not be more true in the case of Germany, a nation that is testimony . to the notion that history is on a dynamic continuum of...
Lucien Enev
Oct 19
BATTLE OF THE TRUTH: THE NORTH MACEDONIAN-BULGARIAN CULTURAL LITIGATION, AND HOW IT IS MERELY A SYMPTOM OF A WIDER EUROPEAN PHENOMENON
In varietate concordia – “united in diversity” – is the European Union’s motto. It encapsulates in a nutshell, the Union’s founding...
Sam Fowler
Oct 19
BRITS ABROAD - THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA?
Much has been made of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union both domestically and abroad. How will trade work? How about...
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