Lord Christopher Patten with ISD Board Members Nancy Boswell and Michael Farrell
ISD Events
- May 17, 2pm-3:30pm: The Diplomatic Response to the Treatment of Apostasy
- May 23, 12:30pm-4:30pm: Workshop on Counterinsurgency and Development
- May 24, 12pm-2pm: Consultation on Civic Actors
- May 30, 12pm-2pm: Consultation on Civic Actors
- Jun 7, 12:30pm-2pm: Internet Diplomacy Working Group
- Jun 12, 11am-4pm: ISD Working Paper Series: Authors Meeting
- Jun 26, All day: Internet and Telecommunications Conference
ISD Spotlight
Tai Chi Lessons for Negotiators
A paper by Alisher Faizullaev, 2012 ISD Associate, on the art of negotiation based on the principles of Tai Chi.
Tough Foreign Policy Issues and Why Washington Can't Solve Them
The Honorable Jane Harman, Director, President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Center delivered the 2012 Oscar Iden Lecture, Tough Foreign Policy Issues and Why Washington Can't Solve Them. From the lecture, "We live in an era of terrorism. Our laws were created for a different era, when the enemies of the United States wore uniforms, the battlefields were clearly defined, and wars ended with the surrender of one nation to another. In this era, the enemy doesn’t wear uniforms, the battlefield is the entire globe . . . and the war is potentially never-ending. Our legal system has not yet adapted to this new era. The enemy is digital, but our legal system is analog." [lecture]
ISD Working Papers in New Diplomacy
The contours of diplomatic engagement are changing rapidly, as are the environments in which diplomacy is crafted, honed, and practiced. New media have changed the pace and content of political awareness and provided new tools for diplomacy. For the list of articles under the ISD Working Paper series, written by Anthony Olcott, Shanthi Kalathil, and others, click the link for Current Studies.
ISD Yahoo! Fellow
The fellowship is supported by the Yahoo! International Values, Communications, Technology, and Global Internet Fellowship Fund, which was established in 2007-08 at the School of Foreign Services (SFS) at Georgetown University with the help of a $1 million gift from Yahoo! Inc. Every year, the fund supports one fellow attached to the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) and two junior fellows from the MSFS graduate program at SFS to do research on how international values apply to the development and use of new communications technologies.
Europost Interview with ISD Yahoo! Fellow
Severine Arsene discusses the role of the Internet as a political tool, the nature of European civil behavior, her new book Internet et politique en Chine, and the Arab Spring. Full text available here.