Doubt candy: How to sell inconsistency
“Ah, it is easy to deceive me! I long to be deceived myself!” — thus famously ends one of Alexander Pushkin’s poems entitled “Confession”....
Exceptional Diplomacy: Counter-hegemony and Resistance in International Relations
Formally established in the summer of 2013, the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) outlines its governing principles by stating that it is “a...
Environmental Diplomacy: China’s Attitude and Effort Towards Climate Change
With the rapid process of industrialization and modernization there has been notable increase in carbon emission leading to global change in climatic conditions in...
Blue Gold: An Emerging Source Of Global Conflicts
Depleting potable water resources have sent alarm across the globe pertaining to the emergence of a new spree of future global conflicts in quest...
The Neo-Compellence: Is the Diplomacy of Violence a new Reality for International Relations?
Authors: Orazio Maria Gnerre and Maxim Sigachev*
From the beginning of the Syrian crisis, one of the most frequent comparisons used for the present situation...
Geopolitical Theory of Water
Geopolitics, as an autonomous discipline, has a very particular cultural genesis, and it is not possible to ignore the deepening of the era in...
Covid-19 Sports Diplomacy: Soft power vs. populism
Sports diplomacy existed long before Joseph Nye coined the term “soft power”. It was supposed to peacefully “co-opt” political actors rather than threaten or...
Pandemic as the Learning Lab and Government Reloaded
How to enable a sustainable exit from the ‚Lockdown‘ Phase and create greater resilience for society ? This is an existential question not only...
Winds of Change
The winds of change have, unlike ever before, cast reservations over the international order of reverence. As each nation scrambles to keep its citizens...
Russkiy Mir: The Role of Russian Orthodox Church in Cultural Diplomacy
Russkiy Mir has its origins from the medieval Russian times but in post soviet era, it has its rebirth from the early 90s but...