Comments for Reflections on Diplomacy

Comment on Does the Subprime Crisis Hold Lessons for a MFA? by anastasiavk

anastasiavk — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:43:57 +0000

It`s sounds like the re-engineering of the MFA!

Comment on Aldo Matteucci by Nigel Lawson

Nigel Lawson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:51:56 +0000

Congratulations on your excellent piece in the April-June issue of World Economics.
Please let me have your email address.

Regards, NL.

Comment on Public perception of diplomacy and diplomats…. why diplomats write….. by jovank

jovank — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:19:33 +0000

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Comment on Plagiarism: Can 85% of Students be Wrong? by dd01

dd01 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:13:19 +0000

Of course 85% of students can be wrong. It would not be first time that 85% of some population is wrong. I am not saying that the educational system is perfect but I don’t think this is a good argument to support it.

US universities offer fantastic environment for studying. They are among the best in the world. For all I know those universities offer very interactive and engaging opportunities for learning, have plenty of resources and are well equipped. What kind of pressure do they apply on students?

What if we changed your text a little bit to read:
“People are often asked to work long hours under pressure. The cost of living is increasingly higher. Faced with this pressure, many people opt for the rational solution which is stealing from the public sector.” Of course the system in which this happens is far from ideal, but would we call such behaviour rational?

Comment on Plagiarism: Can 85% of Students be Wrong? by Gaël From Annemasse

Gaël From Annemasse — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:47:24 +0000

No one can blame today’s student to experiment what was the reality of thoughts production in the past centuries just because internet does exist yet. It will come a day when proprety will fall from its supporting wall, and that day, I’ll be the first to pick the pieces on the floor. Everybody knows that incest is bad but still, nobody cares that it is a valuable practice in some Human culture. The point is that onwers of owned proper thoughts won’t allow society to reform itself without there approval and any kind of consideration in return naturally due ! One philosopher needs one listener. And I should be more precupated by the way picked up information is used then about what does really thinks a student. Who f….. cares ? If the academic sorory is taking a s..t on once boots ? My legacy is that 85% mustn’t be wrong cause this simply means democracy is the fraud.
Once again, no one can blame the students to care.

Comment on Plagiarism: Can 85% of Students be Wrong? by jovank

jovank — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:31:17 +0000

Here is the comment form my wife Aleksandra. We discussed plagiarism during the morning coffee. She has an interesting point. She thinks that technology helped detecting plagiarism. Plagiarism existed in the past as well, but we could not detect it easily. She thinks that the influence of technology (Internet) is more important in detecting than in facilitating plagiarism (copy and paste).