Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy

The handbook delves into the shifting power dynamics in diplomacy, exploring the establishment of embassies in technology hubs, the challenges faced by foreign affairs departments in adapting to digital technologies, and the utilization of digital tools as a means of exerting influence.

List of contents

• 1: Corneliu Bjola and Ilan Manor: Introduction: Understanding Digital Diplomacy - The Grammar Rules and Patterns Of Digital Disruption


• 2: Marcus Holmes: Digital Diplomacy: Projection and Retrieval of Images and Identities


• 3: Ilan Manor and James Pamment: From Micro to Macro Digital Disruptions: A New Prism for Investigating Digital Diplomacy


• 4: Gary D. Rawnsley: Soft Power in the Digital Space


• 5: Emma L Briant: Researching Influence Operations: 'Dark Arts' Mercenaries and the Digital Influence Industry


• 6: Kristin Anabel Eggeling Rebecca Adler-Nissen: Diplomatic negotiations in the digital context: Key issues, emerging trends, and procedural changes


• 7: Lucas Kello: Digital diplomacy and Cyber Defense


• 8: Rhys Crilley: Digital Nuclear Diplomacy


• 9: Jennifer Cassidy: Digital Feminist Foreign Policy


• 10: Nicholas J. Cull: History and Digital Public Diplomacy: Media disruption and global public engagement online in historical perspective


• 11: Natalia Grincheva: Digital Cultural Diplomacy: From Content Providers to Opinion Makers


• 12: Pawel Surowiec-Capell: Digital Propaganda and Diplomacy


• 13: Zhao Alexandre Huang, Phillip Arceneaux: Ethical Challenges in the Digitalization of Public Diplomacy


• 14: Luciana Alexandra Ghica: Transforming International Development: Navigating the Shift towards Digital Cooperation


• 15: Alicia Fjällhed, Andreas Sandre, Matthias Lüfkens: New Trends in Digital Diplomacy: the Rise of TikTok and the Geopolitics of Algorithmic Governance


• 16: Corneliu Bjola and Didzis K¿avi¿š: The Digital Hybridisation of Ministries of Foreign Affairs: The Case of The Nordic and Baltic States


• 17: Geoffrey Wiseman: Digital Diplomatic Cultures


• 18: Caroline Bouchard: The digitalisation of permanent missions to international organisations


• 19: Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt: The digital adaptation of international bureaucracies


• 20: Elsa Hedling: Virtual Diplomatic Summitry


• 21: Fiona McConnell and Alex Manby: Digital diplomacy and non-governmental and transnational organisations


• 22: Efe Sevin: Digitalization of Diplomacy: Implications for Cities


• 23: Anne Marie Engtoft and Tom Fletcher: Digital Diplomatic Representation: The Rise of Tech Ambassadors


• 24: Victoria Baines: International Law, Big Tech regulation, and digital diplomatic practice


• 25: Ruben Zaiotti: The European Union and Digital Diplomacy: Projecting Global Europe in the Social Media Era


• 26: Katharine A. M. Wright: NATO's Digital Diplomacy


• 27: Alisher Faizullaev: Digital Diplomacy of the Central Asian Countries


• 28: Andrew F Cooper Jeff Hai-chi Loo: Chinese Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: Motivations, Modalities and Sites of Practice


• 29: Damien Spry: Diversities and Developments in Asia Pacific Digital Diplomacy


• 30: Daniel Aguirre and Alejandro Ramos: Digital Diplomacy in Latin America: Among Early Adopters and Latecomers


• 31: Banu Akdenizli: Digital Diplomacy in Times of Crisis in the GCC: The Blockade and the Pandemic


• 32: Jorge Heine and Juan Pablo Prado Lallande: The North-South divide, the digital agenda and digital diplomacy


• 33: Antonio César Moreno Cantano: International Geopolitics and Digital Games in the Nationalist Agenda of Great Powers


• 34 Digital Diplomacy during Wars and Conflicts: Moran Yarchi

About the author

Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford and Head of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group, as well as a Faculty Fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy at USC and a Professorial Lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. His research and publications focus on the impact of digital technology on diplomacy, with a current emphasis on public diplomacy, international negotiations, and countering digital propaganda.

Ilan Manor received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2020 and is Senior Lecturer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He is Vice Chair of the Public Diplomacy Interest Group at the International Communication Association and am on the editorial board of two academic journals. His academic work has focused on the topic of digital diplomacy, and he has published more than 20 academic articles in peer-reviewed journals focusing on digital diplomacy.

Summary

In recent years, digital technologies have substantially impacted the world of diplomacy. From social media platforms and artificial intelligence to smartphone application and virtual meetings, digital technologies have proven disruptive impacting the norms, practices and logics of diplomats, states, and diplomatic institutions. Although the term digital diplomacy is commonly used by academics and diplomats, few works to date have clearly defined this term or offered a comprehensive analysis of its evolution. This handbook investigates digital diplomacy as a practice, as a process and as a form of disruption. Written by leading experts in the field, this comprehensive volume delves into the ways in which digital technologies are being used to achieve foreign policy goals, and how diplomats are adapting to the digital age.

The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy explores the shifting power dynamics in diplomacy, exploring the establishment of embassies in technology hubs, the challenges faced by foreign affairs departments in adapting to digital technologies, and the utilization of digital tools as a means of exerting influence. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, including theories from international relations, diplomacy studies, communications, sociology, internet studies, and psychology, the handbook examines the use of digital technologies for international development in the Global South, the efforts to combat digital disinformation in the Middle East, and the digital policies of countries in Europe and the Asia-Pacific. Through case studies and in-depth analysis, readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of the term "digital diplomacy" and the many ways in which diplomacy has evolved in the digital age.

Additional text

Digital diplomacy has upended traditional practices of communication, and western democracies appear to be losing the information war in many parts of the world...This volume provides a welcome and necessary foundation for that agenda.

Product details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2023
• EAN: 9780192859198
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285919-8
• No. of pages: 704
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; COMPUTERS / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, REFERENCE / Dictionaries, Political science & theory, Reference works, Diplomacy, Political science and theory, Dictionaries, Information technology: general issues, Information technology: general topics, Subject dictionaries