How Far Do the Parallels Go and Where Do They End? In Memory of the Founding of the “Weimar Triangle” — 28 August 1991
Dolly Parton and the Wisdom of Tennessee: The Intelligence That Snobbery Should Never Underestimate
From Juha of the Arab World and Till Eulenspiegel of Germany to India’s Tenali Raman: The Tricksters Who Make the World Laugh
How African American Popular Music Helped Bring America Together—and Why the Uniting Practices of Cultural Diplomacy Achieve More Than the Politics of Division
How a Historic Agreement Transformed Compassion into International Law and Why Its Promise Must Still Be Defended to Protect Human Dignity and Preserve the Limits of War
How Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations Helped Give Rise to Ten More Magnum Opuses
Ordinary Problems, Democratic Recovery and the Return of Normality
Across Borders and Generations: How Roy Black and Anita Hegerland Became Part of German Cultural Memory
From Childhood Holidays to Lost Time, Wealth and Memory: What Literature and Philosophy Teach Us About Human Impermanence
The Forgotten Hero: The Universal Story of the Unrecognised Individual
From Jiminy Cricket to Artificial Intelligence: Why Democracies Need an Inner Moral Compass
How Jazz Became a Language of Cultural Diplomacy: A Century and a Quarter of Music as a Global Dialogue
How a Mexican Flower Found a Home in Potsdam, Monet’s Garden and Beyond
Culture as Leverage: The Archimedean Principle in International Relations
Literature, Artificial Intelligence and the Cultural Foundations of Democratic Societies
The Fragile Foundations of Peace
Historical Knowledge for Peacebuilding, Conflict Prevention and Resolution
What the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb Reveal About the Enduring Importance of Maritime Power
An agreement designed to preserve Europe's status quo became a catalyst for political transformation and remains the foundation of a security order worth defending
How an abandoned British ship became a symbol of cultural diplomacy, friendship and democratic history, from Queen Victoria's gift to today's renewed Arctic debates over Greenland
From the revolutionary publication of “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” in 1926 to the literature of today, writers have transformed the way societies question narratives, authority and reality
From a Berlin square named after a great jurist to the global challenge of adapting institutions to societies that have transformed
The New Prime Minister’s First Great Test
What a World Cup semi-final reveals about creativity, culture and the future of human excellence
The Democracy Tocqueville Saw and the Republic We See Today
Mauvaise foi and L’enfer, c’est les autres: Freedom, Responsibility and the Political Culture of Democratic Societies
Pete Seeger’s Cold War anthem speaks again in a world where conflict is no longer an exception but a structure
The Enduring Strength of the Transatlantic Partnership
From Shared Catastrophe to Shared Identity
What a classic BBC tv series about Victorian shipping can teach us about cultural diplomacy, international trust and Europe’s shared memory
Women, Power and the Future of International Leadership
Speech at the Fès Summit on Universal Dignity (Fes, Morocco, 12–14 June 2026)
& Its Parallel Effects on Fragile States across the Global South
From Historical Conflict to Cultural Dialogue
Speech at the Skopje Cultural Diplomacy Forum 2026, 27–28 May 2026
Speech at the Eurasia Economic Summit, Istanbul, 11–13 May 2026
Why AI’s Future Depends on Digital Integrity
Revisiting Enid Blyton in a moment of educational debate, cultural revision and digital rediscovery
On political anticipation, institutional hesitation and the European condition of suspended agency
Rethinking work, value and governance in an economic order shaped by technological change, fragmentation and institutional adaptation
What It Delivered, What Remains Unfinished and the Lessons Ahead
Governance, Memory and History: Historical Knowledge for Failure Prevention and Resolution
External Threats, Internal Fragmentation and the Breakdown of Stability
Bridging Divides: Preserving Communication, Reducing Misperception, Mitigating Risk and Enabling De-escalation
Public Space, Shared Symbols and the Dynamics of Social Renewal
From pacifism in 1933 to contemporary geopolitics, lessons from nine decades of debate on duty, morality and national defence
Are There Still Small States at the Table? Power, Order, and the New Geometry of Influence
From Ukraine to Iran: Strategic Competition in an Era Where Domestic Discord Becomes a Geopolitical Factor
Politics Before Strategy: How political fragmentation, fractured institutions and domestic discord affected strategic decision-making
“Boxing with a Knife” – Asymmetry and the Strategic Dilemma for Divided Democracies
From Coudenhove-Kalergi’s Pan-Europa to Monnet’s Memoirs, how the European Commission’s first priorities echo seventy-five years of vision
From Potsdam to Nuuk, “Are There Still Judges in Washington”? The Rule of Law in an Age of Territorial Temptation
Philosophical, Legal, and Historical Reflections on Contested Interventions in Venezuela and Iran
Rómulo Gallegos’ Century of Civilization, Decay, and Redemption
Conscience, Peace, and Human Accountability: Lessons from The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) and Homage to Catalonia (1938) for 2026
As the Year Closes: Reflecting on Humanity, Diplomacy, and the Pursuit of a World Without War
London’s Buckingham Palace at the Heart of December
