Categoria: Event

Peace deals are leading to more violence.

America and China cannot dominate or exclude each other.

Not choosing is not an option.

Donald Trump sees himself among a line of historical figures in which foreign-policy gestures of punitive, yet “just”, power cohere into a single narrative. One can speak of an emerging imperial narrative—and of the United States as the heir to Europe’s traditional values, as Donald Trump and his team remind the Old World, writes Natalia […]

On May 25, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion titled “Is There a Future for Cultural Diplomacy in a World of Hard Power?” Moderator Anton Bespalov presented a brief overview of the history of cultural diplomacy, public diplomacy, and soft power. He reviewed the growing importance of these mechanisms in the 1990s and 2000s, […]

As Indian foreign policy thought seeks to avoid the term “soft power”, it instead proposes a vision of “cultural diplomacy”—de-emphasising the very notion of “power” in its approach to diplomatic outreach. Instead, the concept of mutual understanding and coequal dialogue is what comes to shape Indian public diplomacy and cultural influence efforts, writes Elena Remizova, […]