Diplomacy and Digitization: A Profession Adapting to New Networks of Power

Diplomacy’s methods have changed with the times. The need to communicate and represent through diplomacy has remained consistent. In this context, digital technologies create openings for new communicative practices that are simultaneously new strategic opportunities. This article offers an overview of the recent growth of public and digital diplomacy, and of some of the ways in which digitalisation is connected to a complex series of threats to the power and centrality of foreign ministries and diplomats, and to new ways of countering these threats.