Digital Diplomacy

Hearts, Minds, and Stomachs: Gastrodiplomacy and the Potential of National Cuisine in Changing Public...

By Braden Ruddy Nation, Identity, Food as Power, and the Theory and Practice of Gastrodiplomacy  Last year, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed that...

Personal Twitter accounts of European Prime Ministers: who’s scoring best?

@marcoRecorder Twiplomacy already does an incredible job in assessing the presence of world leaders on Twitter. What I want to show you today is a...

Why on earth would an Ambassador in Cuba tweet?

A lot of my diplomatic counterparts in Havana look completely bemused when I talk to them about Twitter or tell them what my last...

A review of the European Commission’s social media presence in 2013

@marcoRecorder Co-written with @AmyJColgan, @PabloPerezA. Published on Waltzing Matilda Blog Assessing our performances is key to understanding how we can improve. In this post we want...

140 things you don’t know about Twitter

On March 21, 2006, a simple messaging service was born with a five-word tweet. Fast forward eight years. Tweets now move billions of dollars in the...

A Post Not Called ‘Is Diplomacy Dead Too?’

I was struck by an article by Robert Phillips on the death of PR   (http://www.prweek.com/article/1285244/pr-dead-public-leadership-future). Why is an ambassador to Lebanon reading PR Week? Fair...

Can Cultural Diplomacy Be Seen As Merely Propaganda?

The devil is very influencial because he is holding a bait which pleases the fleshly eyes. By: Kyei-Afrifa Ma Germa More Quotes |...

Why digital diplomacy is not a thing (yet)

@marcoRecorder Some time ago I had the chance to participate in a very good seminar chaired by Jon Worth a well-known communication consultant in Brussels....

The Internet tsunami: 8 big insights on what it disrupts next

The world wide web remains one of the greatest disruptive forces in human history. On an average day it can give you access to...

The State of Gastrodiplomacy

By Paul Rockower It is fitting that a magazine devoted to studying innovations and trends in the field of public diplomacy has turned its focus...