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Geoff Heriot's book, International Broadcasting and its Contested Role in Australian Statecraft: Middle Power, Smart Power, showcases impressive intellectual breadth.
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Africa-Diaspora collaboration could tackle global challenges and reshape power dynamics.
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Nguyen Le of University of Nottingham, Ningbo explains that more needs to be done for the South Korean government to establish BTS as a PD asset.
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It is important to enhance public diplomacy for Indonesia by publishing research and stories in international outlets for the intellectual community.
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David Ellwood of Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna analyzes Qatar's public diplomacy strategies and soft power following the end of the 2022 World Cup.
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Soft power publications tend to over- or solely rely on Nye’s work. It is time to break this vicious cycle.
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CPD Research Fellow Ilan Manor indicates how AIs, without proper regulation, can pose a series of challenges to public diplomacy.
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CPD Blog contributor Jorge Marinho discusses the concept of influence operations and what it means to a country's ontological security.
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