Real-time diplomacy
Subtitle: politics and power in the social media era
By: Philip Seib
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780230339422; 9780230339439
Subjects: Social media; Protest movements; Protest movements in mass media; Diplomacy; Technological innovations; Internet and international relations; Political aspects; Decision making; History
Description: The 2011 uprisings in the Middle East proved that democracy retains its appeal, even to people who have long lived without it. They also illustrated how, in a high-speed, media-centric world, conventional diplomacy has become an anachronism. Not only do events move quickly, but so too does public reaction to those events. The cushion of time that enabled policymakers to judiciously gather information and weigh alternatives is gone. Real-Time Diplomacy analyzes the essential, but often unhappy, marriage between diplomacy and new media, evaluating media's reach and influence, and determining how policy makers might take advantage of media's real-time capabilities rather than being driven by them.
Table of contents: title: The political revolution; title: The media revolution; title: Traditional diplomacy and the cushion of time; title: The arrival of rapid-reaction diplomacy; title: The expeditionary diplomat and the case for public diplomacy; title: The promise of networks; title: Ripple effects; title: Looking ahead.