Summary On 29 February 2020 in Doha, the United States signed an ‘Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan’ with extremist Taliban movement. Yet on 15 August 2021, seized control of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. This article argues that Doha Agreement did not simply precede takeover; significant ways it contributed it. In its negotiation, content and implementation, created destructive incen...

INTRODUCTION Peace and stability in Eastern Europe is now at a crossroads with the rapidly deteriorating foreign policy crisis continuing to unfold in the Ukraine. However, largely overlooked in the context of other foreign policy and diplomatic priorities are the serious public health consequences for the region following the annexation of Crimea and the subsequent decision to ban opioid subst...

The re-emergence of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan is a major setback for India's ambitions region. paper elucidates implications resurgence triumph on India. long-standing bilateral relations between India and are analyzed. present threats emanating from Afghanistan, namely possibility security issues brewing up Kashmir, humanitarian crisis, large exodus refugees, examined. Lastly, provid...

Interview with Nikolay Y. Silaev, PhD (History), Director of the Laboratory for Intellectual Data Analysis, Institute International Studies, MGIMO University, Moscow (Russia). The Minsk agreements were conceived as an opportunity peace in Ukraine, but their failure only exacerbated dynamics conflict. How did negotiations between parties conflict go? Why diplomacy fail and is there a possibility...

a Graduate Institute of International Studies, rue de Lausanne 132, CH-1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland. Correspondence to this author (email: [email protected]). b Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Berne, Switzerland. c Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Manquinhas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ref. No. 06-039222 (Submitted: 23 November 2006 – Accepted: 15 January 2007) Introduction “In the past” — said R...

As the traditional diplomacy is being socialized and networked, public diplomacy becomes the primary tool of diplomacy. In the case of middle powers, public diplomacy weighs more highly because it grants them “ample opportunities to gain influence in world affairs far beyond their limited material capabilities” (Gilboa, 2009). Viewed in the context of the government’s contact with the foreign p...

People are always important only to people. Such practices as “communication”, “cooperation” have developed since mankind created society and not new. The concept of “cultural diplomacy,” aimed at creating maintaining peace stability throughout the world through intercultural relations, forms basis a new science. While science considers research, mechanisms ways, proposed article examines numbe...

Existing work on Automated Negotiations commonly assumes the negotiators? utility functions have explicit closed-form expressions, and can be calculated quickly. In many real-world applications however, the calculation of utility can be a complex, time-consuming problem and utility functions cannot always be expressed in terms of simple formulas. The game of Diplomacy forms an ideal test bed fo...

CONTEXT Accelerated globalization has produced obvious changes in diplomatic purposes and practices. Health issues have become increasingly preeminent in the evolving global diplomacy agenda. More leaders in academia and policy are thinking about how to structure and utilize diplomacy in pursuit of global health goals. METHODS In this article, we describe the context, practice, and components...

The means by which ethno-religious conflicts are resolved must themselves be “peace-ful”. So arbitration must be neutral, i.e., international. And discussions must involve not just the combatants but also representatives of those in civil society who are not involved in the conflict. After much shuttle diplomacy perhaps, they must all come together to reach a settlement. In other words, they sh...