Real-time diplomacy : politics and power in the social media era /
Philip Seib.
- Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan, c2012.
- 199 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
The political revolution -- The media revolution -- Traditional diplomacy and the cushion of time -- The arrival of rapid-reaction diplomacy -- The expeditionary diplomat and the case for public diplomacy -- The promise of networks -- Ripple effects -- Looking ahead.
The 2011 uprisings in the Middle East proved that democracy retains its appeal, even to people who have long lived without it. They also illustrate how, in a high-speed, media-centric world, conventional diplomacy has become an anachronism. It analyses the essential marriage between diplomacy and new media, evaluating media's real-time capabilities rather than being driven by them.
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Diplomacy Diplomacy--Decision making--Technological innovations Social media--Political aspects Internet and international relations Protest movements in mass media Protest movements--History--Arab countries--21st century