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Arunima Gupta discuss the state and sources of India's soft power.

The Emirates Diplomatic Academy (EDA) used the pandemic as an opportunity to ascertain how foreign ministries, diplomats and the craft of diplomacy coped with new realities.

America’s global image has suffered in recent years amid widespread opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Vivian Walker reviews the 2020 Palgrave Macmillan book Russia’s Public Diplomacy: Evolution and Practice.

Joel Day discusses how city diplomacy might be used to address issues of policing reform and racial justice

Former CPD Dissertation award recipient Stanislav Budnitsky discusses Russia's new COVID-19 vaccine in the context of Russia's quest for technological advancement and international standing

Harvard PhD Candidate Naima Green-Riley provides a synopsis of how the protests over George Floyds death transcended borders and how the U.S. can use this momentum to affect positive change internationally.

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Phillip Arceneaux argues that the time has never been better to adopt socio-legal methodologies for exploring the practice of public diplomacy in relationship to international law.

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