Keen to display a strongman image by making swift and decisive moves, a political leader with an eye on electoral benefits can ratchet up tensions and fuel escalation dynamics, writes Sushant Singh.
For the #handbook, Natour tackles an even wider topic: the relation between #art and #diplomacy. She stresses the close but complicated relationship between (visual) art and #emdiplomacy. Diplomacy needed visualisation and art was one medium of communicating hierarchy, power and political messages. (3/7)
In this video, Crisis Group Trustee and President of the School of Oriental and #African Studies ( #SOAS ) at the #University of #London, Zeinab Badawi, speaks about the #failure of international #diplomacy to respond effectively to events in #Sudan, especially following the break out of #war in April 2023.
Azerbaijan is not adhering to the principles needed to clinch a long-term peace treaty, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with France 24. He suggested Azerbaijan was preparing to launch another attack....
Indians 'Forced to Fight on Russian Border' Say Pleas to Indian Embassy Have Gone Unheard: Report
Indian citizens hired as helpers have allegedly been forced to fight alongside Russian forces. This is the first documented instance of Indians being involved on the Russian side in a combat role.
India’s Ukraine and Gaza Policies Are Consistent With the Great Power Aspirations of Its Elites
In not condemning Russia and openly siding with Israel, India’s foreign policy establishment, is merely jettisoning the thin layer of politically-expedient, feel-good idealistic post-colonialism that veils an iron-fisted, pragmatism, writes Ruchi Gupta.
We could not have found a better expert to write this article, as Fedele is research fellow at the university of Lille and focusses in his work on premodern #diplomacy and international law. His seminal study “Naissance de la diplomatie moderne” is available open access.
Looks like large language models have more in common with bullshitters-in-chief than we thought… this speaks both of the models weaknesses, but also of certain kinds of rethoric.
Three Cambodian activists arrested in Thailand will not be deported to their homeland and will be resettled elsewhere, a deputy police chief said on Wednesday, after human rights groups had raised concern about their fate if sent home.
As the first part of the #emdiplomacy handbook is all about changing perspectives on diplomatic history and exchanging ideas with experts from other disciplines, we want to introduce to you our author @halvardl who is Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and an expert on #InternationalRelations, #diplomacy with a special focus on historical international relations and international thought. He also is a member of the editorial team of the European Journal of International Relations and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Historical-International-Relations/Carvalho-Lopez-Leira/p/book/9781032006697 (2/5)
“Everything would have been 180° different if Beau had lived — there’s no question,” said one close associate of the family who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private family matters. “I don’t think Hunter’s life goes off the rails. If Beau wasn’t president of the United States now, he’d be on his way to it. And Joe Biden would never have been president. He would be happily retired.”
He also created organizations to try to maintain a role in shaping #PublicPolicy: the #Biden Foundation, the Penn Biden Center for #Diplomacy & Global Engagement, the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware, the Biden #Cancer Initiative.
The efforts show clearly how Biden saw himself — seasoned #diplomat, #scholar of #government, global statesman. It’s an image that has been hard to sustain in the bruising world of the presidency.
DRC President Felix Tshisekedi has said Congolese armed forces will continue fighting Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo until the mineral-rich country achieves victory. Tshisekedi, who was interacting with diplomats accredited to DRC on Tuesday, said “No dialogue will take place with our aggressor (Rwanda) as long as...
In her article Tremml-Werner identifies core elements of intercultural and transcontinental #diplomacy such as misunderstandings which could occur on all sides of negotiations, originating from either ignorance or a belief in the superiority of one’s own way of thinking and acting, including religious beliefs, or the importance of power bargaining and different legal regimes in polycentric macro-regions such as the Atlantic world, the Indian Ocean or the Sinosphere. (4/10)
Moreover, Tremml-Werner highlights selected practices of intercultural and transcontintenal #diplomacy such as diplomatic ceremony and tribute-systems, compact or patronage. In many parts of the world, written documents have a long tradition of creating formality and trust, which led them to become the preferred tool of governance and administration. They also became a “symbolic image” of power relations. Given the aesthetic elements of letters, they can be regarded as elements of material diplomacy and – in certain circumstances – an integrated part of employing cultural exchange through gift-giving, in particular when interwoven with gold leaf, as was the case with several official letters sent from Asia to Europe. Other examples of diplomatic letters with a strong aesthetic and material component are to be found in Sumatra and in Islamic Africa. (8/10)
Appearing in various places around the globe, treaties are not only concluded between polities who share a similar idea of sovereignty or territorial rights, which does not disqualify them as instruments of #diplomacy The issue about intercultural treaties leads to the question of whether these agreements had an equal or unequal character. Clearly, different forms of unequal treaties existed from the seventeenth century onwards – colonial treaties and the unequal imperialist treaties implemented with Asian empires such as China, Japan or the Ottomans. In Canada, for example, the British crown concluded dozens of treaties with the indigenous populations with regard to settlements and land rights. Indigenous agency within these processes has often been overlooked in the study of these treaty negotiations. (9/10)
Armenian PM warns of risk of new attack by Azerbaijan (en.armradio.am)
Azerbaijan is not adhering to the principles needed to clinch a long-term peace treaty, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with France 24. He suggested Azerbaijan was preparing to launch another attack....
During visit from Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Thailand official says Thailand won't send detained Cambodian activists back home (www.reuters.com)
Three Cambodian activists arrested in Thailand will not be deported to their homeland and will be resettled elsewhere, a deputy police chief said on Wednesday, after human rights groups had raised concern about their fate if sent home.
Tshisekedi Rules Out Talks with Rwanda as Democratic Republic of Congo Intensifies Drones Strikes on M23 Bases (chimpreports.com)
DRC President Felix Tshisekedi has said Congolese armed forces will continue fighting Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo until the mineral-rich country achieves victory. Tshisekedi, who was interacting with diplomats accredited to DRC on Tuesday, said “No dialogue will take place with our aggressor (Rwanda) as long as...