Public & Digital Diplomacy

Public & Digital Diplomacy

Moscow is Using Memory Diplomacy to Export its Narrative to the World

Jade McGlynn, Foreign Policy Magazine | Photo by Steve Harvey on Unsplash The memory of World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as...

Russia and India: Natural Partners in Building a Digital World

Lidia Kulik, Modern Diplomacy EU | Photo by Sam Moqadam on Unsplash Much as for today’s Russia, digital transformation has been one of...

The Digital Legacy of Covid-19

Ilan Manor, E-International Relations| Covid-19 impacted diplomacy in an unprecedented way. The wheels of international diplomacy came to...

Lessons from a year of Covid

Yuval Noah Harari, Financial Times| How can we summarise the Covid year from a broad historical perspective? Many people believe that the...

Can diplomats be proactive online without becoming “wolf-warrior”?

Radu Magdin, Modern Diplomacy | With the increasingly important digital world, traditional, offline tools and approaches are becoming...

Health benefits of Paris climate goals could save millions of lives by 2040

Dr Alice McGushin, Dr Harry Kennard, World Economy Forum| Climate change has been described by WHO as this century's biggest threat to...

Digital diplomacy in the era of Covid-19

Abdelhafidh Abdeleli, The Swissinfo | While International Geneva continued to host face-to-face peace talks for war-torn countries like...

Persuasion or Manipulation? Limiting Campaigning Online

Kate Jones, Chatham House | Democracy is at risk, not only from disinformation but from systemic manipulation of public debate online....

Diplomats worldwide go digital to honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Ilan Manor, Jerusalem Post| On the global arena, International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed by many states and diplomatic...

Economic Diplomacy is a Key Part of Modern Diplomatic Practices: Qureshi Holds Virtual Meeting with

The Nation| Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, encouraged envoys to cultivate and broaden mutually beneficial trade and...

The Newest Diplomatic Currency : Covid-19 Vaccines

Mujib Mashal, The New York Times | India, the unmatched vaccine manufacturing power, is giving away millions of doses to neighbors...

Pursuing Normalization With Iraq, Israeli Digital Diplomacy Plays the Heritage Card

Jonathan Shamir, Haaretz | Unlike its online outreach to the Gulf states, the Foreign Ministry's ‘Israel in the Iraqi Dialect’ Facebook...

How Companies Should Leverage Digitization

Dambisa Moyo, Project Syndicate| As the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the fragility of many business models, it has also intensified...

Vaccine Diplomacy is the New Space Race

Hal Brands , AEI | The space race was the ultimate symbol of Cold War technological competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union....

The UN at Seventy-Five: How to Make it Relevant Again?

CFR.org Editors Members of six leading global think tanks reflect on what reforms are the most important for the United Nations as it...

Diplomacy During the Quarantine: An Opportunity for More Agile Craftsmanship

Pierre Vimont, Carnegie Europe Like many sectors of public and private life, diplomacy has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. As...

Despite goofs, digital diplomacy offers headway for African states

Eliud Kibii, The Star Twiplomacy is a segment of what is now known as digital diplomacy. It, however, can cause problems, to an extent of...

Diplomacy and global governance after Covid‑19: Prepare for change

Jeffery Robertson, The Interpreter Centralized decision-making and tighter budgets are here to stay, with pointless political talkfest...

What’s This? A Bipartisan Plan for AI and National Security

Tom Simonite, Weird US Representatives Will Hurd and Robin Kelly are from opposite sides of the ever-widening aisle, but they share a...

U.S. Rescinds Plan to Strip Visas From International Students in Online Classes

Miriam Jordan and Anemona Hartocollis, The New York Times The Trump administration said it would no longer require foreign students to...

UK’s Asia Minister discusses science & business with Vietnam as part of ‘renewed focus’ on relations

Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Nigel Adams MP, Gov UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office Minister for Asia Nigel Adams MP held several...

New Age diplomacy: Indian envoys & their counterparts brainstorm on digital platform

Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, Economic Times NEW DELHI: A virtual series on ‘Dialogue on Partnership beyond Pandemic’ launched on June 17 is...

How COVID-19 Has Transformed Multilateral Diplomacy

Stephanie Liechtenstein, World Politics Review The coronavirus pandemic has made such breakthroughs impossible. Face-to-face meetings...

France's Science Diplomacy

Pierre-Bruno Ruffini, Science & Diplomacy According to the most widely used criterion, nominal GDP, France is the seventh-largest power...

Digital diplomacy: Challenges and opportunities

Gulf News, Ruqayya Alblooshi Countries must equip future diplomats with the necessary set of digital skills. Read the full article HERE

Guest post: How climate change misinformation spreads online

Kathie Treen, Dr. Hywel Williams & Dr. Saffron O,Neil, Carbon Brief The rapid rise of social media over the past two decades has brought...

Mapping for Diplomacy: A Virtual “Mapping for Global Health” Mapathon

Tom Gertin, U.S. Department of State On April 28, 2020, MapGive held its second annual "Mapping for Diplomacy" event in partnership with...

US diplomats staged photo to pressure China over nuclear talks: Report

David M. Hreszenhorn, POLITICO Russian newspaper says Americans used photo of Chinese flags and empty seats to highlight Beijing’s...

Science diplomacy has come of age in the time of coronavirus

Ruqayya Alblooshi, Gulf News As the world battles to contain COVID-19, scientists and researchers take the centre stage. As the defining...

Who's a bot? Who's Not?

Siobhan Roberts, New York Times It sometimes seems that automated bots are taking over social media and driving human discourse. But some...

Digital diplomacy: States go online

Philipp Grüll, Euractiv Digitalisation does not stop at diplomacy. Embassies are increasingly communicating via Twitter, foreign...

Fighting for U.S. Values Abroad, Black Diplomats Struggle With Challenges at Home

Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy Protests against racism are shedding light on a silent moral crisis within parts of America’s diplomatic...

The Emergence of Cyber Diplomacy in an Increasingly Post-Liberal Cyberspace

Andre Barrinha & Thomas Renard, Council on Foreign Relations The power relations, values, and institutions that governed cyberspace since...

“Mask Diplomacy” and Understating China’s Confucian Strategy in International Relations

Punsara Amarasinghe, Modern Diplomacy The unexpected situation erupted in the West before coping with the coronavirus was followed by...

Covid19: Upgrading Diplomacy and Statecraft to prepare the new normal

Radu Magdin, Modern Diplomacy Diplomats will have to be more adaptable than ever and willing to quickly learn and deploy new tools and...

German foreign ministry praises UAE's 'innovative' diplomatic approach

The National Taking virtual diplomacy to a whole new level: UAE Minister of State Dr. Sultan Al Jaber visiting Berlin and discussing a...

Beyond Twiplomacy: Diplomacy and the Digital Fast Forward

Pratnashree Basu, Modern Diplomacy The practice of diplomacy in the virtual space is geared towards amplifying foreign policy drives and...

Cloud Diplomacy: Consular access, demarche move online

Shubhajit Roy, The Indian Express Besides virtual summits and phone calls, demarche, consular access and even presentation of credentials...

Post-corona, we’re going to need new diplomacy

Gesu Antonio Baez, Modern Diplomacy Diplomacy – as the art of partnership building it is – is needed now more than ever in order to...

The Next Challenge to U.S.-Israeli Ties: China

Ilan Berman, RealClearPolitics Earlier this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Israel on his first foreign visit since the...

Leveraging AI to battle this pandemic — and the next one

Theos Evgeniou, David R. Hardoon, and Anton Ovchinnikov, Harvard Business Review Throughout the pandemic, great emphasis has been placed...

China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ diplomats are ready to fight

Chun Han Wong and Chao Deng, The Wall Street Journal The Chinese Foreign Ministry has adopted an aggressive new stance, spurred by...

Will Zoomplomacy Last?

Daniel B. Shapiro & Daniel Rakov, Foreign Policy During the first week of April, at the peak of the coronavirus outbreak in New York...

Digital Transformation in the Federal Government: 6 key elements for the future

Anil Cheriyan, The Enterprisers Project COVID-19 is helping organizations focus attention on what digital transformation should be all...

An AI future set to take over post-Covid world

Seuj Saikia, The Indian Express A fourth industrial revolution led by artificial intelligence will restructure industries globally; care...

Unprecedented World Health Assembly Convenes Online As Pandemic Rages

Jason Beaubien, NPR The 73rd World Health Assembly took place over teleconference with the main focus being the fight against the...

How to transform the government into an AI-literate workforce

Craig S. Smith, Forbes Highlights from an interview with Jose-Marie Griffiths regarding governmental use of AI: "Workforce is really a...

You Can Now Attend VR Meetings—No Headset Required

Julian Chokkattu, Wired Virtual-reality workspace startup Spatial is offering a free version for users. All you need is a web browser....

Consulates and COVID-19: how Japan, the Bahamas, and the United Kingdom are learning and coping

Trevor Williams, Global Atlanta Reflections on a virtual event held regarding consular practices during COVID-19. Read the full article...

Japan prepares for next Operation Wuhan with 'mobile consulate'

Shotaro Miyasaka, Nikkei Asian Review Foreign Ministry introduces measures to respond to emergencies in far-flung places. Japan's Foreign...