Diplomacy

India’s Ministry of External Affairs is one of the best in South Asia

In his exclusive interview for PICREADI Alexey Kupriyanov, Russian expert on India, reveals some secrets of Indian soft power and states that India's External Affairs is one...

The foreign policy of Pakistan has remained feeble for many years

Sometimes, we fail because of the obliviousness of our vulnerable aspects. The right direction and cognizance of flaws lead one to success. Pakistan, at times, is confronting...

Transcending Borders

Usually the term of diplomacy is equated with a complex governmental framework with extended missions, official proceedings, treaties and much more- all part of a professional...

International Relations Theories and Security

Authors: Fatima Ahmed and Areeja Syed The post-cold war world has experienced many changes, not only in practical terms but also in theoretical sphere. One of the...

Pakistan-China: Social Relations and Soft Power

The intense increase in the image and power China as a global actor having vast geopolitical and geo-economical determinations has been perhaps the biggest story of the...

Civilizationism vs the Nation State

Many have framed the battle lines in the geopolitics of the emerging new world order as the 21st century’s Great Game. It’s a game that aims...

Military Diplomacy as a Hybrid Instrument of National Power

Today's complex security environment requires the United States to use all of its instruments of power to maintain its status in the world, as well as...

Consular Protection

The world is rightly outraged at how Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed, but I was also horrified by where.  As the U.S. Consul General in...

Soft power as an important structural component of a foreign policy strategy of a state

The architect of the ‘soft power’ concept Joseph Nye focuses on ‘the ability to achieve the desired through voluntary cooperation, not by coercion or tricks’. The name...

From WWI to www: Geopolitics 100 years later – Book Review

It is an honor to present to our readers our esteemed alumni colleague and friend Professor Anis Bajrektarević and his newly released book From...

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