Welcome to Verbal Notes!
Verbal Notes is a Digital Meeting Place for Practitioners and Students dealing with Diplomacy, Defense, Development, and Humanitarian Action.
There are two main ways to use this Blog; you can browse the different sections or you seach by Tag.
Browsing by sections
There are four main sections.
Books&More
Mostly notes on published books, with verbatim excerpts that will allow you to access the main ideas. These short summaries cannot replace the experience of reading each book, but they can save you time, offer a wider angle on existing works, and, ideally, encourage you to read further.
In this section you will find as well recommendations on films, series, podcasts, comics, and other potential formats related to our topics.
The Digest
A curated selection of articles mostly from Think Tanks and Academia. Links to original publications are included.
Non Papers
This double Oxymoron (Non Papers from Verbal Notes) includes more personal reflections and rumblings mostly about Diplomacy, also Defense, Development, and what not.
By Invitation
Contributions by colleagues who may be interested in sharing their views on these topics.
Searching by Tags
If you are focusing on a specific topic, you can use tags to locate posts in any of the sections. Tags include Diplomacy, Foresight or Intelligence.
A complet list of tags is here