digital diplomacy
Digital diplomacy is therefore part of the state’s attempt to remain relevant and to assert power in the digital space. And while the goals of any one initiative might be lauded (as this one can), we need to view and ultimately assess it as only one component of a wider suite of digital foreign policy actions. Taken as a whole, digital foreign policy is fraught with challenges and hypocrisies.
Manor & Segev's study on self-framing by Russia, Iran and the U.S. in Social Networking Sites
After the attack on the French satirical weekly newspaperCharlie Hebdo that left 12 dead and 5 injured, Twitter comments are pouring in from around the world. Many take the form of one of the magazine’s specialties, cartoons.
TODAY AT NOON: Join noted author and diplomat Andreas Sandre as he discusses his work and latest book Digital Diplomacy: Conversations on Innovation in Foreign Policy
Governments around the world are using stealthy strategies to manipulate the media. Censorship is flourishing in the information age. In theory, new technologies make it more difficult, and ultimately impossible, for governments to control the flow of information.
Former U.S. Ambassador Christopher R. Hill’s recent book, Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy, is a memoir that provides much insight into his day-to-day life as an American diplomat in the Balkans, Poland, South Korea, Iraq, and his role in various multilateral negotiations such as Dayton and Six Party Talks on North Korea. Hill, who has worked with six different U.S.
It would seem that now, these young Iranians have a president willing to listen to them. (...) The current president promises to bring about the removal of all boycotts against Iran, and is not afraid of Facebook. But he, too, must tread carefully through the Iranian minefield.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Naci Koru, in an exclusive interview with Daily Sabah, said that efforts to develop technological reforms were prioritized in the Foreign Ministry and the e-visa and e-archives projects would be introduced soon.