Mass communications and advances in communications technology pose fundamental challenges to the traditional conduct of diplomacy by reducing hierarchy, promoting transparency, crowding out secrecy, mobilizing global social movements, and increasing the importance of public diplomacy in international relations. But the primary source of change, the force that acts as a common denominator and accelerates other changes, is communications and information technology (CIT). Where nations were once connected through foreign ministries and traders, they are now linked to millions of individuals by fibre optics, satellite, wireless, and cable in a complex network without central control. These trends have resulted in considerable speculation about the future of diplomacy.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 327.71
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- 21
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- 0773523987 9780773570368
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- C69 2002eb
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 7
- Contributors 9
- Acknowledgments 11
- Introduction 15
- EVA N H. PO T T ER 15
- 1 Hyper-Realities of World Politics Theorizing the Communications Revolution 39
- RO N A L D J. D E I B E RT 39
- 2 New Technologies and Networks of Resistance 60
- EL IZ A B ET H S M Y T H E A N D PE T E R J. S M I T H 60
- 3 Real-Time Diplomacy Myth and Reality 95
- EY TA N G I LB OA 95
- 4 The New Media and Transparency What Are the Consequences for Diplomacy 122
- ST E V EN LI V I N G STO N 122
- 5 Snapshots of an Emergent Cyber-Diplomacy The Greenpeace Campaign against French Nuclear Testing and the Spain-Canada Fish War 140
- A N D RE W F. C O O PE R 140
- 6 The New Diplomacy Real-Time Implications and Applications 163
- G O R D O N SM I T H A N D A LL E N SU T H E R LA N D 163
- 7 Information Technology and Canadas Public Diplomacy 189
- EVA N H. PO T T ER 189
- Index 213
