This volume is a tour de force, based on excellent research, and an important and well-timed contribution to the literature. Many leading authors in this volume offer a lot of food for thought to readers who want to make academic sense of diplomacy in the digital age. With state of the art and theoretically stimulating essays, and editors who have become household names in research on digital diplomacy, the Handbook will surely be welcomed by many researchers and students. As a just-in-time research effort on fast-moving technological change and the conduct of international relations , this is a superb guide, and the book deserves a second edition before the end of the decade.
Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford and Head of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group, as well as a Faculty Fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy at USC and a Professorial Lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. His research and publications focus on the impact of digital technology on diplomacy, with a current emphasis on public diplomacy, international negotiations, and countering digital propaganda.
Ilan Manor received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2020 and is Senior Lecturer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He is Vice Chair of the Public Diplomacy Interest Group at the International Communication Association and am on the editorial board of two academic journals. His academic work has focused on the topic of digital diplomacy, and he has published more than 20 academic articles in peer-reviewed journals focusing on digital diplomacy.