Five Challenges for Modern Public Diplomacy and How to Tackle Them

... 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 the Russian International Affairs Council, Carnegie Moscow Center, Valdai Discussion Club or Moscow State Institute of International Relations), but also the Western ones. Among them are Kissinger Associates, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for the National Interest, Oxford University, King’s College of London, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and others. The Institute of Modern Russia’s ...