Five Challenges for Modern Public Diplomacy and How to Tackle Them

... narratives in the West.” 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. In fact, the author of the report Kateryna Smagliy creates a sort of a “blacklist”, which comprises not only Russia’s think tanks, universities and consultancy agencies (like ...