Soviet peace movement in postwar cultural diplomacy: institutions, discourses, practices

Peace through vaccine diplomacy.

CAN VACCINATIONS HELP TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS AND NURTURE DIPLOMACY? LATER THIS MONTH, Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country, will host U.S. President Obama, a visit that could establish important scientifi c ties between the United States and Indonesia and implement a potentially powerful piece of vaccine diplomacy. The oral polio vaccine is a substantive example of how vaccination...

Postwar military training in correctional institutions.

Public Diplomacy and its Institutions in United States of America

Although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. The most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the US, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as Public Diplomacy and to follow local and international ...

Cooperative Institutions in Cultural Commons

This Response critically evaluates Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework and points to some of the challenges of adapting it to study patent pools, open source software groups, and other “cultural” as opposed to natural commons. Few have done more than Ostrom to advance the study of institutions, and no approach offers more insight into the structure of a common-pool ...

Institutions and Outcomes: the Gatt/wto and Postwar Trade

The abundant literature about institutions regards the postwar trade regime as its " beau ideal " (Goldstein, Rivers, and Tomz 2007a, 38). Yet, it was only five years ago that Andrew Rose published the first systematic empirical analysis of its effects. Contravening conventional wisdom, he found that the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor, the World Trade Organization, did...