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Beyond Trending: What is coercive diplomacy? 

Beyond Trending: What is coercive diplomacy? 

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3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 5, 2026 05:13 PM IST US President Donald Trump’s effort to forge a peace deal with Iran does not seem to yield a desired result, as Israeli attacks continued across Lebanon despite a US-brokered ceasefire announced after talks in Washington, DC.  Iran has made a ceasefire in Lebanon a condition for any peace deal with the US. At the same time, the two sides traded attacks in the Gulf on Wednesday (June 3, 2026) in one of the most intense bouts of fighting since early April, when a ceasefire halted large-scale hostilities, reported Reuters. What explains the prevailing situation in the US-Israel war on Iran, where a combination of military pressure and diplomatic negotiations fails to yield a desired result? The concept of coercive diplomacy, in part, helps understand this.  Coercive diplomacy The notion of coercive diplomacy, which became popular during the Cold War era, denotes the calculated use of threats and force to influence an opponent’s decision. Thomas Schelling and Alexander George, two noted scholars of international relations, are …

Video of Blake Lively saying Anna Kendrick is basically the female Ryan Reynolds resurfaces, amid cold war rumours

Video of Blake Lively saying Anna Kendrick is basically the female Ryan Reynolds resurfaces, amid cold war rumours

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May 02, 2025 09:23 PM IST Ryan Reynolds is Blake Lively’s person — and she seems to have found the female version of him in Anna Kendrick The fun banter and vibe Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick shared, or at least pretended to, through the press tour for 2018’s A Simple Favor, really makes the somber cold-war like energy between them now, stick out like a sore thumb. So between press junkets where it looks like you could cut the tension in the air with a knife and to the cringe-inducing awkward red carpet attempts at looking like they can in fact, stand one another, this resurfaced clip of the duo from the A Simple Favor press tour really makes you wonder, what went wrong between the two? Blake Lively says Anna Kendrick is the female version of husband Ryan Reynolds In the clip, Blake is being asked to explain why she feels Anna is a “hotter, female-er version” of her husband Ryan Reynolds, an observation she had previously made. “So what Ryan like quality …

When Henry Kissinger called Bobby Fischer

When Henry Kissinger called Bobby Fischer

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World Chess Championship: The world of chess was on tenterhooks. Everyone was wondering if the World Chess Championship of 1972 would even happen. All eyes were trained on one man, Bobby Fischer, who was dragging his feet and making audacious demands to play in the match. The match in Iceland’s Reykjavík was one of the most eagerly awaited battles on the chessboard between USA’s Bobby Fischer and Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky. So fever pitch was the anticipation for the World Chess Championship match that it was being billed as The Match of The Century. Even the world at large, which had no interest in chess otherwise, was paying attention, because of the geopolitical undertones in the match: it was an American Fischer, as individualistic as they come, taking on the world champion Spassky, who was backed by the full machinery of the Soviet Union. A win on the chess board would have bigger implications than just bragging rights for the victor. The world chess championship match was a proxy war for the actual tussle happening …

When Shah Rukh said ‘rivalry’ between Amitabh and him was ‘media-generated’ | Bollywood

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Shah Rukh Khan had opened up about his so-called cold war with Amitabh Bachchan and also addressed the ‘rivalry’ between them. In a 2007 interview with Rediff, Shah Rukh was asked if ‘there is a rivalry between him and Mr Bachchan’. Denying it, the actor had said there were ‘no issues at all’ between them. Also read: Shah Rukh Khan on sharing screen with Amitabh Bachchan after 17 years Shah Rukh Khan had spoken about Amitabh Bachchan in an old interview. (File Photo) ‘We have no issues at all’ When asked if the ‘rivalry’ between Amitabh and him was ‘completely media-generated’, Shah Rukh Khan had said, “I think so, absolutely. They have been trying it for a long time, and finally they have had some sort of success. So my congratulations. But as far as I am concerned, and I am sure Mr Bachchan is concerned, we have no issues at all.” Discover the thrill of cricket like never before, exclusively on HT. Explore now! ‘Entertainment has become part of news’ He added, “I think …