Public diplomacy

Personal Twitter accounts of European Prime Ministers: who’s scoring best?

@marcoRecorder Twiplomacy already does an incredible job in assessing the presence of world leaders on Twitter. What I want to show you today is a...

From Gastronationalism to Gastrodiplomacy: Reversing the Securitization of the Dolma in the South Caucasus

“I don’t think the war strategy has ever worked for humanity, but after thousands and thousands and thousands of years of earth controlled by...

Why on earth would an Ambassador in Cuba tweet?

A lot of my diplomatic counterparts in Havana look completely bemused when I talk to them about Twitter or tell them what my last...

A review of the European Commission’s social media presence in 2013

@marcoRecorder Co-written with @AmyJColgan, @PabloPerezA. Published on Waltzing Matilda Blog Assessing our performances is key to understanding how we can improve. In this post we want...

140 things you don’t know about Twitter

On March 21, 2006, a simple messaging service was born with a five-word tweet. Fast forward eight years. Tweets now move billions of dollars in the...

15 years since NATO aggression against Serbia and Montenegro

In March 1999, at the direction of the United States of America, NATO engaged in its first act of illegal aggressive war, beginning what...

A Post Not Called ‘Is Diplomacy Dead Too?’

I was struck by an article by Robert Phillips on the death of PR   (http://www.prweek.com/article/1285244/pr-dead-public-leadership-future). Why is an ambassador to Lebanon reading PR Week? Fair...

Conflict Cuisine: Teaching War Through Washington’s Ethnic Restaurant Scene

By Johanna Mendelson Forman, with Sam Chapple Sokol It is a Washington cliché: you can always tell where in the world there is a conflict...

Can Cultural Diplomacy Be Seen As Merely Propaganda?

The devil is very influencial because he is holding a bait which pleases the fleshly eyes. By: Kyei-Afrifa Ma Germa More Quotes |...

Why digital diplomacy is not a thing (yet)

@marcoRecorder Some time ago I had the chance to participate in a very good seminar chaired by Jon Worth a well-known communication consultant in Brussels....