The Digitalization of Public Diplomacy, written by Ilan Manor Gerardo (Gerry) Diaz Bartolome

What is it about?

Almost a guru who felt the need to give full account of the relationship between digital technologies, the digital society, and public diplomacy right before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, in his Digitalization of Public Diplomacy scholar Ilan Manor brilliantly embarks on dissecting the growing impact of Information and Communication Technologies on diplomacy through the process he describes as the “digitalization of public diplomacy”. If the book was already a reference before the pandemic, it has certainly become a must-read for both scholars and practitioners vis-à-vis the post pandemic “hybrid world” now that the pace and scope of the digitalization of diplomacy have been dramatically altered, with lasting effects on the digital society that Ilan Manor insistently calls us to pay attention to in order to take full advantage of the many tools brought about by the digitalization of public diplomacy.

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