Healthy is the new certificate Is the level of healthy living or health clause the next invaluable criteria to consider when moving to a new place, buying real-estate, or simply existing and moving freely in the world? If we want to be farmers, we move to the rural areas. If we want to have a career in business, we move to the crowded cities to […]
-Schitt’s Creek, Schitt’s town, Our town, Your town – Several weeks ago I ran into a show called Schitt’s Creek. Being a fan of Catherine O’Hara since childhood, since Beetlejuice, to be precise, I decided to give it a chance and watch one episode. The description of the pilot episode “Our cup runneth over” was rather off-putting for me, where the family who lost […]
Summary This essay discusses foreign policy tools of small states, their relationship with the great powers and identity. A small state is a vulnerable state weak in economy, military, international relations but mostly size, population and GDP. Foreign policy tools of small states are normative power, resilience, peace building, power games and norm advocacy. They must respond to globalization and European integration process. Foreign […]
Europe, a matriarch of the concept of nation states, now seems to have outgrown that flailing storyline. Could trans national regions be its next power model or is it perhaps the return to an empire upgraded or is a city state the new it? People with common characteristics and an organized political system, with borders having sovereignty over a predetermined area, united with a sense […]
Framing in public diplomacy Introduction Public diplomacy informs and influences international audiences to support and further the policy objectives. It is a foreign policy tool used by the statesmen to advance their national interests in order to achieve their goals. Framing theory deals with the manner in which issues and various events are portrayed and how they are communicated in the text. Framing is a […]