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.

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,lavi,n%s: 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 & 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:

This volume is a tour de force, based on excellent research, and an important and well-timed contribution to the literature. Many leading authors in this volume offer a lot of food for thought to readers who want to make academic sense of diplomacy in the digital age. With state of the art and theoretically stimulating essays, and editors who have become household names in research on digital diplomacy, the Handbook will surely be welcomed by many researchers and students. As a just-in-time research effort on fast-moving technological change and the conduct of international relations , this is a superb guide, and the book deserves a second edition before the end of the decade.

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.

Includes both theoretical reflections as well as concrete case studies Offers a historic analysis of digital diplomacy while also illustrating future challenges to diplomacy Provides a global perspective with case studies from Europe, the Global South, the Middle East, and North America The first book to examine digital diplomacy as a practice, a process and a form of disruption