Digital Diplomacy

Credentials are the formal documents signed by their Head of State, confirming that have been chosen for their new role as Ambassador. pic.twitter.com/xWLlTrrW2W— The...

China’s “wolf warrior” diplomacy may have backfired in Australia, Canada and most recently France, but in a sign of its hardening attitude toward the...

Foreign policies have for many years served as countries’ compass in their relations with each other. With the fast digitalisation of most sectors of...

The Gorchakov Fund will host expert meeting “Digital diplomacy: Can new technologies completely transform world politics?” Tuesday, April 13 at 4:00-6:00 pm Moscow time New...

The adoption of digital technologies by diplomats has had a profound impact on the working routines of ministries of foreign affairs (MFAs). Specifically, digital technologies have had a temporal and spatial effect on diplomacy. The speed with which news travels online has reduced the response time of diplomats. Those wishing to comment on world events must practice a form of real-time diplomacy in which they narrate events as they unfold on the ground. Similarly, diplomatic reporting to headquarters must now take place in near-real time as digitalization accelerates the evolution of political events. As Philip Seib has argued, the all-powerful Hosni Mubarak was ousted in just three weeks while the colour revolutions in Ukraine lasted less than a month. Digital diplomacy is thus also speed diplomacy. From a spatial perspective, the ease with which information traverses national borders has blurred the distinction between the domestic and the foreign. Diplomatic messages aimed at forei..

Digital diplomacy can be an important tool in boosting foreign-policy goals, widening international relations and broadening cultural and social interactions Digital diplomacy can be defined...

Implications for Political Communication and Digital Diplomacy for Zimbabwe and the Developing World In 1992, David Ronfieldt writing for the RAND Corporation promulgated a futuristic...

Even as borders closed around the world last year due to the pandemic, that didn’t stop the spread of the Korean Wave, or “hallyu,”...

Today there is virtually no limit to communication thanks to technological advancements. In this era, the capacity of ideas to influence people is greater...

President-elect Joe Biden is “expected to engage, engage, engage” wrote CBS News Foreign Affairs analyst Pamela Falk, adding “Mr. Biden has made it clear...