Vaccine Diplomacy Game: The Race for Soft Power

The Role of Diplomacy and Soft Power in Combatting Terrorism

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...

public diplomacy and soft power: iran and america in the new iraq

the main goal of this article, this review is that due to the decline of the united states america's soft power after the invasion of iraq in march 2003 - due to the power of unilateral hardware-based - iran can and should according to the religious, historical, and cultural commonalities with its neighboring, strengthen software sources of power than the new iraq to create a strategic and...

Brazil and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Global Health Diplomacy as Soft Power

One of the key developments in international relations during the early twenty-first century is the ascendance of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) (see Box 1 for terms and definitions). While their rising status stems largely from their demographic and economic growth (together accounting for about 40% of the world’s population and 40% of global GDP [1]), also important has...

“Vaccine Diplomacy”: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions

1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Departments of Medical Humanities and Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, 3 James A. Baker III Inst...