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5 days of diplomacy, 5 days of deadly Russian attacks on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/days-of-diplomacy-days-of.html

The Theory Behind Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy (Thomas P.M. Barnett/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/25/trump-venezuela-monroe-doctrine-00618322
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p57#a251025p57

"Although the principles of international climate diplomacy suggest that poorer countries, being less responsible for climate change, have less duty to go green, many face strong economic incentives to do so anyway."
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-…

The green transition has a surprising new home
Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling

In a world which has become quite insane, it is perhaps most shocking to witness how society moves on with business as usual while monsters are destroying our cities, killing our children, eating our future and all the potential for greatness we once had.
We have become accustomed to entirely too much cruelty and fuckery. Like frogs in a pot of water being slowly brought to boil.
Glory to the heroes who fight, glory to the heroes who dare to venture into warzones and report the t…

A Spit In The Face Of Diplomacy
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Putin, a dictator "elected" in stolen "elections" doesn't have legitimacy to sign a peace deal, claim everybody else.
Time to crush him.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115084980921916722

When it comes to international conflict, Donald Trump learns everything the hard way.
On issue after issue
—North Korea, Venezuela, Ukraine, Gaza, and more
—Trump begins by bucking conventional wisdom and insisting that a bold new approach will yield breakthroughs.
Implied, and often said outright, is that past officials who worked on the matter were feeble, inept, and craven.
Trump insists that his determination and powers of persuasion will force seismic change—…

Ahead of His U.N. Speech, Remember That Trump Is Learning Geopolitics in Real Time
A guide to pushing the U.S. president more quickly up his learning curve.

After the meeting friday between Trump and Putin we will know whether the frantic diplomatic activity was succesful.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/europe/ukraine-russia-zelensky-…

How a Call From Trump Ignited a Frantic Week of Diplomacy by Ukraine
Once a vague proposal for a territorial swap gained clarity, a worried President Volodymyr Zelensky worked to rally allies before Friday’s Trump-Putin summit.

Diplomacy or illusion? Ukrainian ex-ambassador on the meeting in Alaska #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/diplomacy-or-illusion-ukrainian-exambassador.html

The Alaska Summit and the Danger of Trump's Diplomacy-by-Spectacle (Mark Hertling/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-alaska-summit-and-the-danger-of-donald-trump-diplomacy-by-spectacle
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p106#a250818p106

"Trump n'a aucune idée de la façon de faire de la diplomatie" (Stephen M. Walt dans Foreign Policy)
Ça décoiffe !
https://archive.is/20250820223532/https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/19/trump-diplomacy…

American Diplomacy- 2025 Style
'I don’t like you either. And I probably never will,” the US president, Donald Trump, tells Australian ambassador Kevin Rudd at the White House cabinet room table.
https://www.

While I would want an immediate withdrawal from NATO, this seems a politically persuasive line.
"He told the BBC he did not support withdrawing from Nato "immediately" as "the world is in political turmoil, and we need to make sure our country is defended".
"Once we've created an alternative alliance with our European neighbours, we should absolutely be looking at a different way that is focused on peace and diplomacy, rather than on nuclear weapon…

Green Party leader Zack Polanski defends wealth tax proposals
Zack Polanski says a new tax on the rich would tackle "the deep inequality in our society".

On #Poland's initiative, on the sidelines of an emergency session of the UN Security Council, a group of 48 countries and the EU Delegation issued a joint press statement on the largest violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

EU diplomacy chief arrives in Kyiv to discuss aid, Ukraine's energy sector: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/eu-diplomacy-chief-arrives-in.html

Congratulations to Barbara Hof, currently postdoc in my SNSF project, for being awarded the 2025 IUPAP Early Career Prize in the History of Physics!
https://www.iuchpp.org/prize/prize-2025

At the Semicon trade show in Taipei, Taiwan promotes diplomatic relations and pitches its tech manufacturing to "create trusted non-red supply chains" (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/tai

My favourite part of "The Diplomat", a drama about high level diplomacy, is when a character - during a moment of import - corrects someone over an utterly trivial aside, such as a figure of speech.

'Diplomacy be damned': Influencer says murder is an American tradition - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/charlie-kirk-maga/

Revealing Higher-Order Interactions in Complex Networks: A U.S. Diplomacy Case Study
Arthur Rondeau, Didier Wernli, Roland Bouffanais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10333 https://…

Revealing Higher-Order Interactions in Complex Networks: A U.S. Diplomacy Case Study
Although diplomatic communication has long been examined in the social sciences, its network structure remains underexplored. Using the U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks in 2010 as a case study, we adopt a network-science perspective. We represent diplomatic interactions as a hypergraph and develop a general, random-walk-based pipeline to evaluate this representation against traditional pairwise graphs. We further evaluate the pipeline on legislative co-sponsorship and organizational…

Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is (Thomas L. Friedman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/opinion/trump-russia-ukraine-putin.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p4#a250820p4

Trump's lack of any sort of diplomacy's driven America's enemies to assemble the fucking Legion of Doom.
☑️ Leaders of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran gather in Beijing for huge military parade in challenge to the West | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/ch…

Leaders of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran gather in Beijing as ‘axis of upheaval’ emerges in challenge to the West
For the last three days, Xi Jinping has played host in one of China’s busiest port cities, welcoming leaders from across Asia and the Middle East for a carefully choreographed summit designed to showcase his vision of a new world order.

Good Morning #Canada
The Webster–Ashburton Treaty was signed August 9, 1842, and resolved several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies (the region that very soon would become the Dominion of Canada). The treaty would end disputes and controversies over the vague indefinite terms and text of the old peace agreement of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolutionary War. Specifically, it defined borders between Maine and New Brunswick, territory surrounding Lake Superior, and reaffirmed the western border on the 49th parallel. More importantly, it began a period of peace and friendly diplomacy between the two countries... until Americans decided a moronic spray tanner, suspected abuser of women, convicted felon, golf cheat, and narcissistic conman should be their president.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/webster-ashburton-treaty

"The degree of equality of women within countries predicts best—better than their degree of democracy and better than their level of wealth, income inequality or ethno-religious identity—how peaceful or conflict-ridden their countries are. Further, democracies with higher levels of violence against women are less stable and more likely to choose force rather than diplomacy to resolve conflict."
The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy
https://www.juancole.com/2025/10/mortal-sins-patriarchy.html

Putin Finds a Growing Embrace on the Global Stage (Paul Sonne/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/world/europe/russia-ukraine-putin-diplomacy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p2#a250902p2

Europe faces a dual challenge. On the one hand, the United States is drifting toward a more authoritarian—perhaps even fascist—political orientation, while at the same time adopting a stance more favorable toward Russia than toward Europe. On the other hand, both the US and Europe are confronted with China as a major geopolitical competitor and adversary. This complex situation demands careful diplomacy and strategic maneuvering. Difficult times ahead.

UK more or less back in EU again, at least for diplomacy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/15/trump-putin-alaska-meeting-summit-news-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Qatar Pushes U.S.-Venezuela Diplomacy as Trump Focuses on Military Action (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/venezuela-trump-qatar.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p167#a251008p167

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SI/new
[1/1]:
- Invisible Women in Digital Diplomacy: A Multidimensional Framework for Online Gender Bias Against...
Yevgeniy Golovchenko, Karolina Sta\'nczak, Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Patrice Wangen, Isabelle Augenstein
…

Steve Witkoff's go-it-alone diplomacy is frustrating US and European officials (Felicia Schwartz/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/steve-witkoff-russia-ukraine-00533390
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p8#a250829p8

Matt Duss of Center for International Policy: “This is an attack in the capital of a major non-Nato US ally in the midst of US-supported negotiations – against officials who were originally hosted there at the United States’ request… It’s an attack on diplomacy itself, making clear that Netanyahu intends to see Israel’s accelerating campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza through to the end. If it was conducted with the approval of the US.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/israel-targets-top-hamas-members-in-qatar-for-gaza-ceasefire-talks?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other