CPD Launches WikiLeaks Media Monitor

The discussion of digital diplomacy has focused excessively on social media. Social media gurus may welcome this. Diplomatic analysts should be more cautious. Social media are not necessarily easy tools for diplomats. They...

Taking Stock of WikiLeaks and Cablegate: A “Napster Moment” for Government? Drip, drip, drip… For analysts of both public and traditional diplomacy and international relations, the gradual...

Mary Thompson-Jones is the author of To The Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America's Foreign Policy Disconnect. She joined the foreign service as a public diplomacy officer and worked in Madrid, Prague...

Remember WikiLeaks? The 251,287 leaked embassy cables had a lot to show about the status of public diplomacy. From the story of Bulgaria’s Aleksi “the Tractor” Petrov to disappearing ballot ink in Ukraine, to a Honduran coup...