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Viral diplomacy: in the age of coronavirus, how statecraft and summitry will have to adapt
  • calender icon March 12, 2020

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

As corona goes viral, we are learning that predictions can be both contagious and futile. But here – recklessly – are a few for the mom ...

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Leaders from 2008 crisis call for G20 emergency summit on coronavirus
  • calender icon March 11, 2020

  • user icon Patrick Wintour, The Guardian

Veterans of the global response to the 2008 financial crisis have called for an emergency summit of G20 countries to discuss the threat to the worl ...

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Abu Dhabi students discover diplomacy in the digital age
  • calender icon February 9, 2020

  • user icon Caline Malek, Arab Weekly

Students offered innovative ideas, such as using blockchain as an anti-corruption tool, harnessing artificial intelligence and virtual reality to e ...

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Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark on how to achieve world peace
  • calender icon January 24, 2020

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

Helen Clark, head of the UN Development Programme, tells us what needs to be done to create a more peaceful world in 2020.   Former Ne ...

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In the 2020s, abnormal will remain the new normal
  • calender icon December 27, 2019

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The Globe and Mail

If there is one thing that sensible diplomats have learned over the centuries, it is not to make predictions.   But here is one anyway ...

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