On 5 February 2023, Ms. Maryam Raza, Deputy Director, PRCCSF participated as a
speaker in the “8th INTERNATIONAL BAŞKENT CONGRESS”. The congress was
organized by BZT Academy, Turkey and successfully managed by Dr. Baha Ahmet
Yilmaz, CEO, BZT Academy. A large number of international speakers from all
around the world participated in the online congress. Global scholars shared their
innovative research on different topics. Ms. Maryam Raza, Deputy Director, PRCCSF participated as a speaker in the congress.
She gave a speech on “Soft Power Diplomacy vis-à-vis Regionalism in 21st
Century”. She discussed that the advanced mechanism in international relations and
global politics has brought profound changes and evolutionary developments. She
discussed that some states have been optimizing soft power diplomatic tools to
enhance cooperation, and regionalism has also emerged as a whole discourse of study to
analyze relations among institutions and countries.
Ms. Maryam stated that socioeconomic and political transformations have been
providing a plethora of opportunities for joint collaboration vis-à-vis securing
national interests. However, emerging common threats jeopardizing the decent
existence of human beings cannot be overlooked.
She explained that the unique combination of soft power and regionalization can
present a new model of interstate or interregional coordination. Ms. Maryam
concluded that cultural cooperation remains the major essence of diplomacy to
enhance people-to-people contact. Thus, all states must join hands to tackle common
threats and move towards a shared future.
