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.
Jan Melissen, Editor-in-Chief The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Leiden University, the Netherlands, and University of Antwerp, Belgium
A tour de force! In an era of rapid digital transformation, this Handbook is more than just a reference-it is a roadmap. Based on interdisciplinary, innovative theory and meticulous research, the leading experts in the field make invaluable thought-provoking insights about the nexus of digital technologies and diplomatic practice available to scholars and students. Dive in to explore, understand, and engage with the digital frontiers of modern diplomacy.
Emanuel Adler, Professor of Political Science Emeritus and Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies Emeritus at the University of Toronto.
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.
Rémi Meehan, International Affairs