In a growing number of countries diplomatic systems are being overhauled so that the commercial activities of diplomatic services have been centralised, the commercial activities of diplomats have been extended, and business interests have been formally integrated within diplomatic systems. These changes result directly from the tendency of governments to reorganise, and in many cases merge, th...

in the 21st century, distinctions and boundaries between global health, international politics, and the broader interests of the global community are harder to define and enforce than ever before. as a result, global health workers, leaders, and institutions face pressing questions around the nature and extent of their involvement with non-health endeavors, including international conflict reso...

The study of games in Artificial Intelligence has a long tradition. Game playing has been a fertile environment for the development of novel approaches to build intelligent programs. Multi-agent systems (MAS), in particular, are a very useful paradigm in this regard, not only because multi-player games can be addressed using this technology, but most importantly because social aspects of agenth...

the aim of this study was to design interpretative structural model (ism) of the components of sport diplomacy. the present study was applied in terms of aims and descriptive with regard to data collection. with review of related literature and qualitative interviews (content analysis) with 13 iranian and foreign experts of sport diplomacy, components and items of sport diplomacy were identifie...

The article deals with the concepts of "international cultural cooperation", "cultural diplomacy" and "public which are not identical. Cultural public diplomacy noted to have clearly determined goals, aimed at ensuring national interests. It is emphasized that international cooperation, in contrast relations, does arise spontaneously, but as result purposeful actions subjects. tools mentioned a...

Water diplomacy agents typically manage tensions between promoting peace and securing self-interest. This paper conducts a discourse analysis of commissioned policy report by leading Netherlands think-tank that helped inform Dutch on water diplomacy. We first establish the importance report. then identify its focus theme ‘neutral broker’ apply vocabulary analysis, argumentation metaphor togethe...

Abstract How do adversaries build social bonds in peace talks and how decisive are such for the success of processes? The article investigates micro-sociological thesis that diplomatic face-to-face interaction can generate bonds. It is based on direct observations from between Philippine government communist party (NDFP) January 2017 backchannel 2020. shows took form friendly disengaged with ve...

globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. the aspects of globalization can be classified in four dimensions: social and cultural globalization, economic globalization, political globalization and globalization of law. a review of recent urban and regional studies shows that these studies has affected from globalization literature in ...

This article focuses on Midwives4All, an ediplomacy campaign launched by the Swedish MFA in 2015. The campaign aims to spread knowledge about the benefits of midwives and evidence-based midwifery. Within the campaign, the Swedish MFA, and in particular its Communications Department (UD-KOM), combines e-diplomacy and networking and the campaign has become one key activity within the Swedish femi...