Meditations on the future of old diplomacy, the nature of new diplomacy, and the fate of the world’s complex conversations
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Tags: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, diplomacy, diplomatic academy, Dominique de Villepin, Global Brief, Jeremi Suri, John Bolton, Kissinger, Machiavelli, teaching diplomacy, Twenty-first century diplomats, University of Texas at Austin, Woodrow Wilson
Why we keep talking, talking, talking
The great 18th century French diplomat Talleyrand once said that speech was given...
Tags: Al Jazeera, communication, diplomacy, diplomat, Douglas Glover, Egypt, Global Brief, language, Marshall McLuhan, secrecy, Talleyrand, Tunisia, Wikileaks
With classical state power plays clearly back en vogue, the collective responsibilities of the new century will be all the...
Tags: Adam Smith, bilateral relationships, BRIC, Charles Emmerson, collective economic and political order, Communism, diplomacy, East-West relations, energy security, Global Brief, global commons, global economic institutions, global market, global system, Global War on Terror, globalization, human history, human political organization, interdependence, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, national state, state-sponsored piracy, strategic cooperation, trade wars, war on drugs, war on poverty, winning states, World Economic Forum, WTO, zero-sum world
GB talks new-century politics and geopolitics – from the local to the general – with former UN Secretary-General Boutros...
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