Doing History in Public

Tag: public diplomacy

  • International Commonwealths: Public Diplomacy in 17th Century Europe

    International Commonwealths: Public Diplomacy in 17th Century Europe

    By Basil Bowdler (@BasilBowdler) When allegations of Russian interference in the Brexit referendum and US general election of 2016 surfaced, it struck many as a new and disturbing development in public politics. But in reality, foreign powers have been attempting to manipulate public opinion to their own ends for much longer. In seventeenth-century Europe, as…