Europe
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Science Diplomacy (SD) leverages scientific collaboration to enhance a nation's global influence and promote international cooperation.
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Ireland has placed storytelling at the heart of its public diplomacy strategy.
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CPD Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Kristin Anabel Eggeling, discusses diplomacy amid digitalization and technological change.
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Heightened public diplomacy efforts from China, Türkiye, and Russia are significantly influencing regional dynamics in the Western Balkans, Europe's "powder keg."
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CPD's César Corona analyzed the lessons the U.S. should learn from its failure to host the Expo 2027.
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Political dissent can disrupt public diplomacy of states but it can also function as public diplomacy in its own right.
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CPD Blog contributors Jorge Marinho and Júlio Ventura discuss the situations of foreign influence, interference and espionage in higher education institutes and suggest countermeasures.
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Eranetization reinvigorates diplomacy studies concerning the European integration project and its enduring resonance in the European Southern Neighborhood.