TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seib,Philip M.
TI  - Real-time diplomacy: politics and power in the social media era 
SN  - 9780230339439
U1  - 327.2 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave MacMillan
KW  - Diplomacy
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Social media
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Internet and international relations
KW  - Protest movements in mass media
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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