The Verdict? The Nation Brands Index 2022 and Russia's fall from grace.
In this season finale Simon and Nick discuss the recently published findings of the 2022 version of the Anholt-Ipsos Nation Brands Index. Th...
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People, Places, Power
People, Places, and Power is a podcast hosted by Nick Cull and Simon Anholt about international relations, foreign policy, and a few other issues along the way.
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20 of 48 episodesAfrica on the move? The Prospects for a Better Image.
In this episode Nick and Simon discuss the shifting image of Africa, taking a lead from the latest version of the Anholt-Ipsos Nation Brands...
Episode 46: Small is Beautiful? Subnational places and image promotion
This episode looks at the smaller units of international image—regions and cities—and how they fare in comparison to national images. Issues...
Episode 45: Bridging the Gulf: Reputation and the Gulf States
This episode considers the reputation of the Gulf and its most prominent actors including not only the nation states like Saudi Arabia, Qata...
Episode 44: Weighing Image Strategies for Low-Income Countries
This episode considers the utility of place branding and soft power strategies for countries least developed in these areas. The conversatio...
Episode 43: Britain in Transition: the UK's image and the New King and Prime Minister
This episode considers the image of Great Britain as the country mourns the loss of Queen Elizabeth II and simultaneously adapts to a new Pr...
Episode 42: All About Me? National Images and Personal Identity
This episode probes the connection between personal identity and national image, considering Simon's past contention that national image is...
Episode 41: Future Perfect: Visions of progress and country image
This episode considers one of the problems of international relations today: the absence of the kind of compelling visions of the future tha...
Episode 40: Nations and Truth: International Reputation an the age of Disinformation
This episode considers the implications of the rise of state-sponsored fake news and disinformation for international images. Simon takes th...
Episode 39: Italy: Rising or Falling?
Today's episode considers Italy, hailed by The Economist in December 2021 for its improvement but in the news in the summer of 2022 for poli...
Episode 38: Of Greenwashing and 'Hipster Nations'
This episode looks at the role of environmental policy as a component of international image and the question of whether countries are follo...
Episode 37: For the Love of Mexico
In this episode Simon and Nick discuss the reputation of Mexico and the reasons for its relatively poor showing in the Nation Brands Index....
Episode 36: The Power of Language
This episode considers the power implicit in the popularity or otherwise of particular languages on the world stage, beginning with the ques...
Episode 35: Northern Ireland peace and the challenge of 'relevance'
In this episode Nick and Simon respond to a listener's question about the impact of a potential collapse of the Northern Ireland peace agree...
Episode 34: The Power of “From”: The Country-of-Origin Effect
This episode revisits a key concept in the study of international image: the ‘country-of-origin effect’ by which countries can enhance the v...
Episode 33: What’s in a Name? Renaming places as a Strategic Gambit
Inspired by media reports of the Turkish government attempting to assert the Turkish spelling of their name, this episode considers strategi...
Episode 32: Reckoning with the Pandemic: COVID 19, image, media and communication
This episode takes an overall view of COVID 19 and its impact on reputation. Simon points out that the damage to reputations was only slight...
Episode 31: Honest to God: The image of Religions and other Transnational Groups
In this episode Nick and Simon think about the reputation of transnational ideas and organizations, starting with religions. Nick recalls re...
Episode 30: Issues in the Index: The Nation Brands Index 2021
This episode considers the results of the Nation Brands Index for 2021. Issues include the limited post-Trump recovery of the US image, the...
Episode 29: Meet the Goodest: The Good Country Index for 2022
In the episode Simon introduces the fifth iteration of the Good Country Index ( index.goodcountry.org/ ) now published in partnership with D...
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