AI and the Decline of Reality in Public Diplomacy
By Giles Strachan and Ilan Manor
In 1957, the physicist Hugh Everett proposed the Many-worlds Interpretation of reality. Quantum physicists had discovered that fundamental information...
Leveraging AI in Diplomacy: LLMs As Opinion Aggregators
The rapid development of AI tools has caused a frenzy in foreign ministries (MFAs) as diplomats across the world are trying to identify the...
AI Power and its Impact on Digital Diplomacy Research
Throughout the 1980s, noted British historian Eric Hobsbawm delivered a series of lectures examining the academic study of history, and the state of social...
Quantum Mechanism, AI and the Future of Diplomacy
Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is considered the cornerstone of quantum mechanics. Heisenberg famously argued that quantum particles are subject to unpredictable fluctuations, making them...
Digital Diplomacy and the Retelling of World War II
On May 8th, the world celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. It was, for many, a solemn day. The...
Digital Diplomacy in the Age of Trump: An Analysis of “Rapid Response 47”
In January 2025, the Trump White House unveiled a new Twitter/X account titled “Rapid Response 47.” From the perspective of digital diplomacy, such an...
Digital Diplomacy and the Crisis of Diplomatic Credibility
Diplomacy hinges on credibility. As Ben Mor aptly notes, “being perceived as honest and reliable is a necessary condition for obtaining and holding the...
On DeepSeek, AI and “Post-Time”
Sociologist Manuel Castells famously argued that digital societies relentlessly strive to annihilate time and space. Time is annihilated by the reversal of traditional roles...
DeepSeek- An Awesome Chinese AI Tool for Disinfromation
The past week saw the launch of DeepSeek, a Chinese Generative AI tool. The launch of a Chinse rival to American AIs such as...
The Return of the Website? Lessons from Ukraine’s Digital Diplomacy
For nearly a decade, the term digital diplomacy has been closely associated with social media. In many MFAs, digital diplomacy units are actually tasked...
