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Five Challenges for Modern Public Diplomacy and How to Tackle Them
By Pavel Koshkin
  • Pavel Koshkin
    Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet, RIAC Expert
  • In October 2018, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) published new article about the Modern Public Diplomacy and problems associated with it. The author, Pavel Koshkin, RIAC expert, is a Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences.
    The article includes a comment by Natalia Burlinova, the founder and the president of "Creative diplomacy".
"In a time when politics is winning over people-to-people dialogue, such negative publicity of Russia reveals five challenges for today's public diplomacy: the Moscow–West crisis of trust, U.S.–Russia political differences, information wars, disruptive technologies, and the power of stereotypes"
  • Russian International Affairs Council
    RIAC is a Russian non-profit academic and diplomatic think tank that operates as a link between the state, scholarly community, business, and civil society in an effort to find foreign policy solutions to complex conflict issues