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Five ways to spot fake news

The News Literacy Project teaches children how to evaluate the credibility of information they get online. Here are five tips on how to spot...

Do you have what it takes to be an Irish diplomat?

Interested in representing Ireland abroad? The next generation of diplomats are being recruited Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 08:15 Ciara Kenny Méabh Ní Drisceoil, third secretary...

Learning Digital Diplomacy Online

Background on Digital Diplomacy Training Training is essential to foreign ministries’ adoption of digital diplomacy. This has been emphasized in how-to guides for practitioners, such...

Digital Diplomacy Myths

In the introductory chapter to the edited volume on Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice that Marcus Holmes and I published four years ago, I...

How changing rules of engagement sparked a diplomatic crisis for diplomats

International diplomacy is changing fast. Career diplomats in Washington are increasingly finding themselves sidelined and distrusted by their own political masters. Meanwhile, in Beijing, China's foreign...

Kommersant interview with Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova

“I am surprised when individual posts or comments are sensationalized that much” — Note: this interview was conducted by Kommersant reporter Elena Chernenko and was published...

“Tell Me More”

When I entered the Foreign Service in 1979, my class of 16 new Public Diplomacy officers was taught to cultivate “the Foreign Service manner,”...

How digital is your country? Europe needs Digital Single Market to boost its digital...

European Commission published the results of the 2018 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), a tool which monitors the performance of Member States in...

Diplomacy of Homosexuality

 BRITISH Prime Minister, Theresa May had a clear message, or more appropriately, directive to the 53 leaders of the former British colonies euphemistically called...