Mastodawn

New in International Affairs (w Alicia Fjällhed): “Public Diplomacy in the Crossfire: Decoding Ukraine’s ‘Strategic Self’ During Wartime.”

We introduce the Strategic Self — a framework explaining how states communicate under pressure:
🌍 Projecting Self → resilience, values, solidarity
⚔️ Distancing Self → exposing aggression, mobilising outrage

Effectiveness = adaptive balance + narrative restraint.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaf179

#DigitalDiplomacy #PublicDiplomacy #Ukraine #StrategicCommunication

digitaldiplomacy Jul 7, 2025

Started the day at the AI for Good Summit with a sharp session hosted by UNITAR and ITU for senior Geneva diplomats.

We unpacked key challenges in global #AIGovernance:
– Who’s setting the rules—and who’s not at the table?
– Can diplomacy keep up with the tech?

#DigitalDiplomacy #AIForGood

digitaldiplomacy Feb 4, 2024

🚨 Our first article (w @Ilan_Manor ) from the special forum on ‘ChatGPT & Diplomacy’ is out. We apply Technological Acceleration theory to map out three scenarios in which Generative AI will transform #DigitalDiplomacy. 📢More to come!

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41254-023-00323-4

Digital diplomacy in the age of technological acceleration: three impact scenarios of generative artificial intelligence - Place Branding and Public Diplomacy

In this article, we employ the prism of technological acceleration to consider how Generative AI may impact the spatial–temporal dimensions of diplomacy, and what ramifications this transformation may hold for its practice. To do so, we distinguish between Horizontal Acceleration, which relates to the number of diplomatic domains that are progressively impacted by the introduction of a new digital technology, and Vertical Acceleration, which relates to how ripple effects reverberate within the diplomatic domain and how deeply. Next, we outline three possible scenarios in which Generative AI leads to minimal or maximal horizontal and vertical acceleration. In the Dedalus scenario, Generative AI’s impact is confined to a few domains, predominantly influencing diplomats’ daily routines. In the Heracles scenario, Generative AI systems interact with one another rendering human diplomats as mere messengers. We coin this outcome as ‘the end of diplomacy.’ Finally, we anticipate that many MFAs may position themselves between these two poles in the Pygmalion scenario.

SpringerLink

digitaldiplomacy Nov 23, 2023

Thrilled to see that the 2nd ed of the #diplomacy textbook I co-authored ✍️with M Kornprobst has been translated and published in Chinese by the Peking University Press. The 3rd ed in English is already in the works and will be released in 2024.🔖

digitaldiplomacy Oct 27, 2023

IT'S OUT‼️ New chapter out with @Ilan_Manor exploring #Russia use of #digitaldiplomacy and revisionist historical narratives to undermine images of #Baltic states & try to fracture their relationship with #NATO allies. Important #disinfromation case study 👇

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003190363-14/use-abuse-history-russian-embassies-twitter-corneliu-bjola-ilan-manor

The Use and Abuse of History by Russian Embassies on Twitter | 14 | Th

In recent years, Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) throughout the world have employed digital diplomacy to craft and manage their nation’s image and soft

Taylor & Francis

digitaldiplomacy Oct 21, 2023

Renaissance meets the future: the perfect backdrop for a panel on the intersection of #AI and diplomacy, hosted by the Center for American Studies in Rome. #FestivalDellaDiplomazia #DigitalDiplomacy.

digitaldiplomacy Sep 23, 2023

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have a vision for generative AI. Will it work?
https://www.vox.com/2023/9/23/23886163/google-microsoft-amazon-generative-ai-assistants

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are pushing their latest AI assistants, ready or not

Big Tech has a vision for generative AI. Will it work?

Vox

digitaldiplomacy Jun 30, 2023

📚 📢 I'm thrilled to announce that a new book addressing the intersection of digital technology and international relations is set to be published in November 2023! 📆✨ https://shorturl.at/gkmQZ https://shorturl.at/ciIL0

Stay tuned for more updates! 🎉📚🌍 #DigitaIR #BookRelease

Digital International Relations: Technology, Agency and Order

This book analyses how digital transformation disrupts established patterns of world politics, moving International Relations (IR) increasingly towards Digital International Relations. This volume examines technological, agential and ordering processes that explain this fundamental change. The contributors trace how digital disruption changes the international world we live in, ranging from security to economics, from human rights advocacy to deep fakes, and from diplomacy to international law.

Routledge & CRC Press

digitaldiplomacy Jun 8, 2023

📢The Oxford Handbook of #DigitalDiplomacy to be released in Nov 2023
📚🎉

🔍 34 "state of the art" chapters written by top experts in the field, covering key topics such as soft power, public diplomacy, cyber diplomacy, crisis communication, international negotiations, and multilateral diplomacy. 💼💡

More details are available here: https://lnkd.in/dai9fdQS 📚✨

digitaldiplomacy Jun 2, 2023

🔌💡"Data as Power": Excited to share my latest article for American Academy in Berlin

I argue that in the era of tech geopolitical competition, data can also act as a catalyst 💪, not only a hurdle, for international cooperation. 🌐

#DataPower #TechCooperation

https://lnkd.in/d8kmFanW

Data as Power - American Academy

Is the power of data a positive or negative?

American Academy