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Ilan Manor unpacks challenges facing diplomats to embrace digitalization beyond the catchphrase “digital diplomacy.”
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Sohaela Amiri discusses cities' expanding roles at the global negotiating table, from climate change, to winning hearts and minds and beyond.
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Mark Dillen dives deep into the role of citizen journalists and the private sector in countering disinformation across the digital sphere.
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Reality TV shows like "Deadliest Catch" and "Ice Road Truckers" bring more visibility to the future of this region, according to Derek Moscato.
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Russia’s position as a high-burden country for tuberculosis makes its global health diplomacy efforts all the more important.
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CPD Faculty Fellow Nicholas Cull examines the diverging realities of Dresden and Leipzig and the possible cause for their split.
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CPD Intern Kendal Gee dispatches from London, where American exchange students seek cultural bridges.
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Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service Conrad Turner looks at volunteering, active learning and the calling of a public diplomat.
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