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Mexico’s decision to keep hosting FIFA 2026 turned a security test into an exercise in credible sports diplomacy.

Emma Briant probes the public diplomacy implications of President Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” in the middle of his trade confrontation with Canada.

Rescue dogs Proteo and Arkadaş show how humanitarian response can become lasting public diplomacy through empathy, reciprocity and shared memory.

Emma Briant probes the public diplomacy implications of President Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” in the middle of his trade confrontation with Canada.

President Claudia Sheinbaum can turn Mexico’s cultural abundance into lasting influence by making listening, coordination and reciprocity the core of public diplomacy.

Does the Korean State’s conscription of BTS erode their organic status, creating a paradox between managed public diplomacy and independent cultural credibility?

The value of an exchange cannot be measured only by what a participant receives. It must also be measured by what the participant does afterward.

 

People fall in love when their counterpart makes an effort not only to understand their culture, but to engage and integrate within it, regardless of external criticism. 

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