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CPD Faculty Fellow Nicholas Cull reports on the treatment of religious issues at Expo 2025 Osaka.  

 

Publications by diplomats are a form of public diplomacy since they are geared, by definition, towards an open audience, thus also helping shape public opinion.

Ilan Manor probes whether AIs developed in different countries follow a Country-of-Origin Effect, in which AI narration of world events differ based on the country.

 

César Corona, CEO of ExpoMuseum.com reports on Ukraine's "Not for Sale" Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.

In 2025, Netflix’s animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters emerged as a global cultural phenomenon, illustrating the expanding influence of Korean popular culture in transnational media markets. Can that influence be measured?

Jonathan Prosser explores Child Centred Nations, which consider children at the crux of their foreign policy to see positive outcomes for the children of other countries.

China’s World Heritage nomination strategy illustrates its ambition to gain narrative power and use culture to serve the BRI agenda. 

In tribute to Joseph Nye’s legacy of “soft power,” Najmedin Meshkati and Bright (Dokyeong) Lee argue that today’s global crises demand a new paradigm of Engineering Diplomacy.

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