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Latest articles
No true Scotsman
25 June 2018
Communication, Cultural diversity, Diplomatic theory and practice
No true believer ever wavers! No true warrior dies in his bed! No true Norwegian takes sugar in coffee! No true American dishonours the stars and stripes! The No-true-Scotsman fallacy or ‘move’, as it is formally ...
Has the coronavirus deprived us of choice?
26 March 2020
COVID-19 diplomacy, Digital diplomacy, Diplomatic theory and practice, Language (and) diplomacy, Online education, Rhetoric
The coronavirus has been credited with catalysing a shift from a self-centred ‘I’ society to another-centred ‘we’ society. The focus on individual well-being and material wealth that has shaped many people’s...
An assessment of autonomous drones’ potential during the COVID-19 pandemic
28 April 2020
COVID-19 diplomacy, Gender rights online, Internet governance and digital policy, Telecommunications infrastructure
The drone industry has the potential to make a substantial contribution in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Developments in the industry have been nascent so far, but there is the potential for exponential grow...
EU-UK videoconferencing. All for show?
03 June 2020
The future relationship negotiations between Britain and the EU, which commenced on 3 March 2020, teach many lessons in the art of negotiation. Among these are the obvious value of certain kinds of deadline and the le...
An honorary consul in the pandemic
15 June 2020
Consular and diaspora diplomacy, COVID-19 diplomacy, Diplomatic theory and practice, Honorary consuls
On 2 July 2020 I received an e-mail from Razvan Constantinescu, the energetic Romanian honorary-consul general for the south-west of England based in Bristol and president of the Bristol Consular Corps. This told me h...
