Having a clear, differentiated positioning gives a country an advantage in attracting investment, business and tourism, and in building markets for its exports. Countries like Greece, Spain and Chile are successfully repositioning themselves using coordinated marketing and highly visible events like the Olympics. Positioning and national image also matter greatly in public diplomacy and cannot ...

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Social games are challenging for AI research because they involve not only the mechanism of game (taking actions, planning, etc), but also the social aspects including communicating, cooperating and reaching agreements. Some social games also require cunning, duplicity, or bad faith. In this paper we present the implementation of a prototype that utilizes the properties of the subsumption archi...

This article discusses why the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) is significant for Indonesia and how plays a strategic role in IORA to realize national interests advance its vision as World Maritime Axis? In answering these questions, we build arguments based on Christian Le Miere's theory of maritime diplomacy Helen Milner's international cooperation. The argument this consists two things. ...

Public diplomacy represents an important activity that serves national interests and comes as a function of the development country its people. The importance public is increasing, especially when considering current global context – technological, digital, economic developments, interconnections, interactions at multilateral levels. In Albania, little known about diplomacy, role, functions, ho...