Cyber-Diplomacy : Managing Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century

220 Pages·2002·4.355 MB·English

by  Evan H. Potter

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Cyber-Diplomacy
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Cyber-Diplomacy
Managing Foreign Policy in
the Twenty-first Century
edited by
evan h. potter
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montreal & Kingston London Ithaca
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© McGill-Queen’s University Press 2002
isbn 0-7735-2398-7 (cloth)
isbn 0-7735-2451-7 (paper)
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Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada. Publication of
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grant from the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy
Development.
McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the
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Main entry under title:
Cyber-diplomacy: managing foreign policy in the twenty-
first century
Includes index.
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To Harold Herbert Potter
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Contents
Contributors / ix
Acknowledgments / xi
Introduction / 3
evan h. potter
1 Hyper-Realities of World Politics: Theorizing the
Communications Revolution / 27
ronald j. deibert
2 New Technologies and Networks of Resistance / 48
elizabeth smythe and peter j. smith
3 Real-Time Diplomacy: Myth and Reality / 83
eytan gilboa
4 The New Media and Transparency:
What Are the Consequences for Diplomacy? / 110
steven livingston
5 Snapshots of an Emergent Cyber-Diplomacy: The
Greenpeace Campaign against French Nuclear Testing
and the Spain-Canada “Fish War” / 128
andrew f. cooper
6 The New Diplomacy: Real-Time Implications
and Applications / 151
gordon smith and allen sutherland
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7 Information Technology and Canada’s
Public Diplomacy / 177
evan h. potter
Index / 201
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Contributors
andrew f. cooper is a professor in the Department of Politi-
cal Studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.
ronald j. deibert is an associate professor in the Depart-
ment of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the di-
rector of the Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto–based laboratory
for research at the intersection of digital media and civic activism.
eytan gilboa is a professor of communication and govern-
ment and chair of the Department of Social Sciences at the Holon
Institute of Technology in Israel. He is also affiliated with the De-
partment of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
steven livingston is the director of the Political Communi-
cation Program of the School of Media and Public Affairs at the
George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He also serves as
the chairman of the board of the Public Diplomacy Institute at the
George Washington University.
evan h. potter is the founding editor of the quarterly Cana-
dian Foreign Policy and was a senior strategist in the Communica-
tions Bureau at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade. He teaches in the Department of Communica-
tions at the University of Ottawa.
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gordon smith was deputy minister of foreign affairs (1993–97)
at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade. He is the director of the Centre for Global Studies at the Uni-
versity of Victoria, British Columbia.
peter j. smith is a professor at Athabasca University, Alberta.
elizabeth smythe is an associate professor at Concordia
University College of Alberta.
allen sutherland, at the time of writing, was on the Policy
Planning Staff at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade. He is now at the Privy Council Office, Govern-
ment of Canada.