Europe
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How China’s privately-owned pay television company StarTimes has developed relationships throughout Africa.
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Citing Gramsci’s theory of cultural hegemony, Eriks Varpahovskis provides historical examples of states' resistance to cultural diplomacy products.
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Director of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine Barbora Maronkova on how NATO skillfully combined its new headquarters with art.
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Reflecting on the Lviv Security Forum, CPD Faculty Fellow Philip Seib discusses the critical importance of media literacy in combating hybrid warfare that relies on disinformation.
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Yadira Ixchel Martínez Pantoja explains the public diplomacy impact of British High Commissioner Laura Clarke's activities in New Zealand.
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In the recently released 2019 Soft Power 30 report, CPD Director Jay Wang explores the concepts of "digital for public diplomacy" and "public diplomacy for the digital."
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Public diplomacy scholars Emily T. Metzgar, Efe Sevin and Craig Hayden reveal the results of their meta-analysis of PD research spanning 50 years.
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CPD Faculty Fellow Corneliu Bjola discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) may be integrated into consular services, crisis management, public diplomacy and international negotiations.