http://baldi.diplomacy.edu/video/
http://baldi.diplomacy.edu/stefano/curricul.htm
http://baldi.diplomacy.edu/books/bookit.htm
http://baldi.diplomacy.edu/pro/
http://baldi.diplomacy.edu/italy/
http://baldi.diplomacy.edu/intern/
mercoledì 14 settembre 2022
An Italian ambassador's website
Diplomacy, diplomatic missions, embassies, consulates, the European External Action Service, cultural diplomacy, economic diplomacy, scientific diplomacy and sports diplomacy
You should read all the following carefully and make notes:
Very good: https://www.ilpost.it/2021/03/08/ambasciatore-cosa-fa/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul_%28representative%29
Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale
(MAECI)
the European External Action Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_External_Action_Service
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/_en
then look click on the headings ‘about us’, ‘the EU in
the world’ etc
Cultural diplomacy
https://www.esteri.it/en/diplomazia-culturale-e-diplomazia-scientifica/cultura/
(and all the links on the right of this page to these
pages below, and all the links within these pages!)
https://www.esteri.it/it/diplomazia-culturale-e-diplomazia-scientifica/cultura/reteiic/
https://www.esteri.it/en/diplomazia-culturale-e-diplomazia-scientifica/cultura/universita/
https://www.esteri.it/en/diplomazia-culturale-e-diplomazia-scientifica/cultura/cooperculturale/
https://www.esteri.it/it/diplomazia-culturale-e-diplomazia-scientifica/cultura/sostegno-alleditoria/
https://www.esteri.it/it/diplomazia-economica-e-politica-commerciale/diplomaziaeconomica/
Economic diplomacy
https://www.esteri.it/it/ministero/struttura/dgpromozionesistemapaese/
https://www.esteri.it/en/ministero/struttura/dgpromozionesistemapaese/
https://www.esteri.it/mae/doc/20110615_farnesina_sistema_paese.pdf
https://www.esteri.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20220623-Diplomazia-Economica_DEF.pdf
https://www.simest.it/simest?_ga=2.69259920.147188251.1591607397-644575388.1587552963
https://www.esteri.it/it/diplomazia-economica-e-politica-commerciale/
https://www.esteri.it/it/diplomazia-economica-e-politica-commerciale/diplomaziaeconomica/
(and all the links on the right of this page to these
pages below, and all the links within these pages!)
and very important
and
(and the links on the right of this page to other
pages)
https://osservatorioglobalizzazione.it/osservatorio/diplomazia-economica/
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/570483/EXPO_IDA(2017)570483_IT.pdf
in one region
https://www.pnud.camcom.it/allegati/estero/export_2018.pdf
How much was Italian economic diplomacy worth in 2016?
https://www.esteri.it/mae/resource/pubblicazioni/2018/03/newsletter_n.2_febbraio_2018.pdf
and in 2017?
and earlier?
Scientific diplomacy
https://www.esteri.it/en/diplomazia-culturale-e-diplomazia-scientifica/cooperscientificatecnologica/
Sports diplomacy
https://veracura.network/sport-diplomacy/
https://www.treccani.it/magazine/atlante/geopolitica/Giochi_diplomatici.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sOsUYD-650
http://theafricanfile.com/academics/usc/sports-diplomacy-and-apartheid-south-africa/
A little light translation and notetaking! The sites of the EU, the UN, the FAO, the Bank of Italy and NATO
Use the EU website to improve your ability to produce correct English vocabulary, grammar and syntax. The are also links to the sites of the UN, the FAO, the Bank of Italy and NATO.
The homepage of
the EU website
Start with the
EU homepage and all the documents linked it. Open the homepage in Italian and open it again in
English on another page on your laptop. Translate from
Italian to English orally line by line, moving from the Italian version to the
English version to check. Of course, there will be some differences of style
and occasionally of sentence structure, but you are interested in identifying
any really bad errors of vocabulary or grammar that you make (the errors will
be mainly vocabulary). Make notes on your errors. You should also note any
spelling you need to remember.
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_it
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en
Then open all
the documents listed on the homepage (and the ones connected to those!) in
Italian and English.
https://eu-solidarity-ukraine.ec.europa.eu/index_it
https://eu-solidarity-ukraine.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Sometimes you
can change the language of the document directly on that page, but other times
you have to go back to the original homepage in Italian or English and follow
the same series of steps to the document that you want. In the EU Newsroom some
of the documents are only in English, but the highlighted ones are in both
languages. See which documents are in both languages and which are only in
English on this page.
https://europa.eu/newsroom/home_en
You can, of
course, search for a particular topic:
the EU/UK future
relationship after Brexit
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/relations-non-eu-countries/relations-united-kingdom_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/relations-non-eu-countries/relations-united-kingdom_en
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/it/statement_21_1018
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_21_1018
or the EU
response to Covid-19
https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-response_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-response_en
The EU in 2021
(the General Report)
Don’t forget, if you need to
expand your knowledge of basic vocabulary, go to the EU site in Italian and
English, where you will find ‘the EU in 2021’ (a general report of 134
pages). Open the report in
Italian and open it again on another page in English on
your laptop. Translate from Italian to
English orally line by line, moving from the Italian version to the English
version to check. Of course, there will be some differences of style and
occasionally of sentence structure, but you are interested in identifying any
really bad errors of vocabulary or grammar that you make (the errors will be
mainly vocabulary) Make notes on your errors. You should also note any spelling
you need to remember.
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2021/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2021/en/
2020
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2020/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2020/en/
2019
then click on the language you
want and download in Italian and English
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/lue%20nel%202019-NAAD20001ITN.pdf
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/the%20eu%20in%202019-NAAD20001ENN%20(1).pdf
And then the in
2018
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/lue%20nel%202018-NAAD19001ITN.pdf
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/the%20eu%20in%202018-NAAD19001ENN.pdf
This will give you
more than 150 pages of Italian to translate into English! To check your
translation just move between the Italian and English version and take notes on
regular language usage and differences. You can also download the French, Spanish or German versions.
And here's the EU
in 2017 (130 pages)
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/lue%20nel%202017-NAAD18001ITN.pdf
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/the%20eu%20in%202017-NAAD18001ENN%20(1).pdf
And here's the EU
in 2016 (104 pages)
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/the%20eu%20in%202016-NAAD17001ENN.pdf
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/lue%20nel%202016-NAAD17001ITN.pdf
The EU in 2015 (96
pages)
https://op.europa.eu/it/web/general-report
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/general-report
https://op.europa.eu/documents/2072384/2117292/NAAD16001ENN.pdf/7583a46b-e8f0-4ae7-b03f-8ebea15d2e76
and ‘the General report on the activities of the European Union 2014’
(288 pages!)
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/beafd525-4bc8-468c-9342-69041fb04e0f
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/relazione%20generale%20sullattivit%C3%A0%20dellunione%20europea-NAAD15001ITN.pdf
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/general%20report%20on%20the%20activities%20of%20the%20european%20union-NAAD15001ENN.pdf
If you prefer, you can go
straight to the English version of the EU in 2021 or other texts on the EU site
or UN site and simply start taking notes on common expressions used in
diplomatic English.
There’s also EU
law. Search for a specific topic, the click on the law, choose the language and
download the text
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/search.html?scope=EURLEX&text=2022&lang=en&type=quick&qid=1663182311648
There's also the
European Green Deal in Italian and English
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en
This page and all the linked
pages
And the EU Recovery plan - NextGenerationEU
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_en
and all the pages and documents linked to the EU’s main page
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_it
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en
The UN
There is also
the UN Annual Report 2021 for note-taking on the language, unless you want to
translate from French or Spanish into English!
https://www.un.org/annualreport/index.html
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/2109745-E-ARWO-2021-Final-15-Sept-WEB-pages-m.pdf
or 2020
https://www.un.org/annualreport/2020/
or 2019
https://www.un.org/annualreport/2019/
or 2018
https://www.un.org/annualreport/2018/
If you prefer
you can go straight to the UN site and simply read and take notes on the vocabulary and phraseology that they use. Start
with the UN News Centre:
https://news.un.org/en/news (click on
the right for stories from previous years)
and for listening
practice, go to the UN audio section
https://news.un.org/en/audio-hub
https://news.un.org/en/audio-product/news-brief
You
should also look at all the links on the right on both those pages
There's also the
FAO in Italian and English to practise your translation skills
The articles listed on the FAO
archive page here are also available in English. Click on the article you want
to get it in Italian and then open the site on another page on your laptop, go
to the article again and click on 'English' at the top to get the English
version. Translate from Italian to English orally line by line, moving from the
Italian to the English text to check. Make notes on your vocabulary and grammar
errors. Note any spelling you need to remember.
https://www.fao.org/news/archive/it/
There are also all the
articles from previous years if you do a search for the year ans language at
the top on the left. Put ‘2021 italiano’
Some examples from 2021 (but
there are lots more):
https://www.fao.org/news/story/it/item/1415609/icode/
https://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1415595/icode/
https://www.fao.org/news/story/it/item/1441736/icode/
https://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1441673/icode/
https://www.fao.org/news/story/it/item/1439725/icode/
https://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1439673/icode/
There‘s also the
Bank of Italy site to explore
https://www.bancaditalia.it/homepage/index.html?com.dotmarketing.htmlpage.language=1
For example:
NATO
Start with the main page:
https://www-nato-int.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=it&_x_tr_hl=it&_x_tr_pto=sc
giovedì 8 settembre 2022
Some useful expressions
When it comes to ....+ noun e.g. cultural diplomacy + sentence e.g. we need to understand what is meant by soft power'.
Some would say that …. + sentence e.g. a
military intervention should be avoided at all costs.
By doing this …. + sentence e.g. Italy's
partners are failing to show the solidarity on which the European Union is
based.
As a direct result of ….+ noun or gerund or
phrase e.g. the economic crisis, + sentence e.g. many countries saw their
public debt rise steeply.
Undoubtedly, …... + sentence e.g. this
challenge requires a swift, collective and coordinated response.
In (the) light of this, or In the
light of + noun e.g. this situation, these tensions etc. + sentence e.g. the
need for negotiation has become urgent
In short, ...+ sentence e.g. despite the
signs of economic recovery there are no grounds for complacency.
Let us now focus on …. + noun or gerund or
phrase e.g. the economic challenge
There are no simple answers.
Here are some of the main questions that are
raised by these events: + some direct questions
What is clear is (the fact) that … + sentence e.g. there is no going back
What is less clear is whether …+ question
e.g./ why this is happening. /what the UN should do. etc..
For a long time it has been fashionable to
argue that … + sentence e.g. the social media strengthen democracy. However, ….
Conventional wisdom says that ../ tells us
that …+ sentence e.g. all states need allies.
It must be stressed that... + sentence e.g.
this offers only a temporary solution
Another factor/ question/ issue etc. to be
considered is / to be taken into consideration is ... + sentence
If, and this is a big if, …. + sentence, then …. + sentence
Given the current climate, …./ Given the
current climate of + noun e.g. debate, fear, distrust, optimism etc.
In the wake of … + noun e.g. recent events,
these terrorist attacks
Some useful vocabulary for international relations
https://irp2014.wordpress.com/vocabulary-lists/
https://diplomacy.state.gov/discover-diplomacy/diplomatic-dictionary/
https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/183677#view=notes
http://www.cram.com/flashcards/essentials-of-international-relations-vocab-1895879
https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/122125.pdf
https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/218634.pdf
http://kamudiplomasisi.org/pdf/kitaplar/___adictionaryofdiplomacy.pdf
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