Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: Making Sense of Digital Diplomacy. I:DIGITAL DIPLOMACY: THE POLICY DIMENSION 1. Digital Diplomacy and International Change Management 2. Digital Diplomacy: Between Promises and Reality.3.‘Secrecy is for Losers’: Why Diplomats Should Embrace Openness to Protect National Security. 4. Social Media and Public Diplomacy: A Comparative Analysis of the digital diplomatic strategies of the EU, U.S. and Japan in China. 5. America's Selfie: How the U.S. portrays itself on its digital diplomacy channels. II: DIGITAL DIPLOMACY: THE INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION 6. Business as Usual? An Evaluation of British and Canadian Digital Diplomacy as Institutional Adaptation, 7. Evolution not revolution: The ‘digital divide’ in the American and Australian contexts.8. The International Criminal Court: Using Technology in Network Diplomacy. 9. When Doing Becomes the Message: The Case of Swedish Digital Diplomacy.10. The Power of Diplomacy: New Meanings, and the Methods for Understanding Digital Diplomacy. CONCLUSION: The Future of Digital Diplomacy. Glossary of Terms Bibliography

About the Author

Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies, University of Oxford, and author or editor of three previous books, including Understanding International Diplomacy (with M. Kornprobst, Routledge 2013).

Marcus Holmes is Assistant Professor of Government, College of William & Mary, USA.

Reviews

'Rapid increases in the availability and power of connection technologies are changing the modes of international relations and the conditions for statecraft in the 21st century. This volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of how. This is a smart read for foreign policy practioners and those that study them.' -- Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2009-13)‘This unique collection of case studies on digital diplomacy dispenses with technological determinism and concentrates upon the management of change across the core practices of diplomacy. As such, it represents a timely and indispensable intervention in an emerging field of practice and scholarship.’-- James Pamment, University of Austin, Texas, USA'The authors in this book, academics and practitioners, do not only have an interest in everything digital. Crucially, they successfully marry that knowledge to a solid understanding of 21st-century diplomatic practice. That is what makes this book special and so far indeed a unique contribution to the field.' -- Jan Melissen, Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael', and University of Antwerp, Belgium