Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era

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.

Author: P. Seib
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/14/2012
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780230339439

About the Author
PHILIP SEIB Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy and of International Relations at the University of Southern California, USA, and director of USC's Center on Public Diplomacy.