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How diplomats and governments use social media, digital campaigns and online influence to shape foreign policy. One example every issue.
AI is already writing briefs, translating negotiations and foreseeing crises, along with what is changing, what is breaking and what most foreign ministries are ignoring.
The career skills that no MFA training yet covers. Digital communication, online reputation, data literacy and how to build influence before you achieve the title.
ABOUT THE NEWSLETTER
Most people think diplomacy is shaped today by titles and behind closed doors.
Diplomacy has moved on…
I am working alongside that world, near enough to observe how it operates and to reveal what those in the field of diplomacy rarely say out loud. Working with diplomats on how they communicate sensitive matters publicly in a language that respects the art of protocol but still understandable by a broad audience. That same experience extends into political campaigning, where the digital side of communication carries its own unwritten rules.
What has surprised me is how much the two worlds are connected. Politics and diplomacy affect each other in ways most people in both fields do not fully recognise it for what it is. It is now shaped by platforms and narratives, the sort of influence that never appears in any official record. This shift in the way things are done is all encompassing today.
Most people in the field are too close to it to refer to it specifically.
DiploTalk is about this shift. Each topic that appears in the newsletter takes one idea that is at the intersection of diplomacy and digital influence – it gets to the root. It is explained clearly, without academic distance or false simplicity, from someone who has worked inside both political and diplomatic communications.
If you are either a diplomat, an adviser, or early in your career in international relations, DiploTalk is written for you. For those occasions when you think, “I understand the theory but not what is actually happening in.” That is the insight this newsletter offers. A different insight each week.
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