Diplomatic career
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What are diplomatic competencies for the AI era?
18 October 2024
In my previous blog post, Why AI Will Make Diplomacy More Important, I argued that AI will enhance the relevance of diplomacy. Now, let’s consider the competencies diplomats will need to succeed in an AI-driven worl...
Why will AI enhance, not replace, human diplomacy?
16 October 2024
Artificial Intelligence, Diplomatic career, Diplomatic protocol and etiquette, Diplomatic reporting, Diplomatic service, Pedagogy
Diplomacy is undergoing a significant transformation in the age of artificial intelligence. Rather than becoming obsolete, it is poised to thrive—and here’s why. Diplomacy in the AI era: Human as ever D...
Foreigners everywhere: Identity and estrangement in diplomacy
07 October 2024
As I wandered through the 2024 Biennale in Venice, captivated by the theme "Foreigners Everywhere," I couldn't help but reflect on the unique position of diplomats as quintessential foreigners in three profound ways: ...
The Slovene Diplomatic Union: Enhancing the profession
Thirty-two years before French diplomats went on strike for the second time in almost four centuries of their formal diplomatic history, Greek diplomats went on strike. I was at that time part of the Yugoslav Foreign ...
Training and courses
Events
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait and Diplo forge strategic partnership
21 May 24 - 21 May 24
Resources
2016
Diplomacy at the Cutting Edge
I started writing a memoire in 1998, but on a long train journey in Germany (Stuttgart to Essen), accompanied by my wonderful wife Mimi, a thought came that it might be much more interesting to write about how the Indian diplomatic system works – or does not really w... Read more...
2015
A Diplomatic Whistleblower in the Victorian Era: The Life and Writings of E. C. Grenville-Murray, Second Edition (Revised) 2015
Unlike Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, the most well-known whistleblowers of the present day, Eustace Clare Grenville-Murray (1823-1881), the illegitimate son of an English duke and an actress who was also a lover of Lord Palmerston, did not make public highly clas... Read more...
1998
From parallel to dual careers: Diplomatic spouses
This paper provides a brief summary of the main issues relevant to the contemporary role of diplomatic spouses and its future in the contemporary European context. It outlines some of the measures being introduced by Foreign Services to respond to the changing role and... Read more...
