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Tweet, Then Delete: Obama and Rouhani’s Diplomacy Takes to Twitter

Oct 01, 2013 Written by  Marc Sabbagh, Guest Contributor A phone call between President Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani? Talk about 20th...

China: The Internet and The Birth of Cyber Diplomacy

Sep 24, 2013 Written by  Richard Rousseau, Contributor In the 2000s, “public diplomacy” became a central part of the function of diplomacy. As...

A glimpse of digital diplomacy *The voice of Russia 28. october 2011*

Today we are going to talk about digital diplomacy. What actually is it? How is it being applied? What are the benefits and challenges...

How real sports diplomacy works

Dennis Rodman is bound to grab headlines with his third trip to North Korea, scheduled for later this week. But his message to President...

[Today in PD] Vedrine And Kinkel Visit Sarajevo: The Makings Of A Public Diplomacy...

We connoisseurs of the diplomatic public speaking art are fortunate to have one example of a high-profile public speaking occasion where everything that could...

Reset in digital format *text from 2011*

Alec Ross, the Senior Adviser for Innovation to the US State Secretary Hillary Clinton, is due on an official visit to Moscow later this...

Review – The Comparative International Politics of Democracy Promotion

The Comparative International Politics of Democracy PromotionEdited by Jonas Wolff, Hans-Joachim Spänger, and Hans-Juergen Puhle London: Routledge, 2014. Despite more than two decades of extensive policies...

Libya: The Moral Permissibility Of ‘Operation Unified Protector’

Issues of humanitarian interventions generate questions of morality. The 2011 military intervention by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Libya is no exception....

[Today in PD] The Biggest Land Rush In The History Of The Internet Starts...

This item has been corrected. The web is about to have its big bang. About 1,000 new generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs (the last bit...

[Today in PD] Pope Francis Says The Internet Is A Gift From God

Pope Francis today described the internet as a "gift from God," hailing its ability to foster dialogue among disparate groups, though he acknowledged that...