Digital Transformation Lab (DigiTraL): Digital Diplomacy and Statecraft

This policy brief explores the cooperation of the Quad governments (Australia, the United States, and India) on tackling cyber-borne threats to (inter)national security, focusing on their pledge to pursue certain minimum security standards for software procurement.

This working paper explores the cooperation of the Quad governments (Japan, Australia, the United States and India) on tackling cyber-borne threats to (inter)national security.

The DSA is directed at protecting consumer rights and at enhancing accountability of platforms. The DMA serves to achieve fair competition on the digital market that has taken an oligopoly-like structure. We explain an aspect that is largely overlooked in the debate on the new regulation, its potential to reduce the weaponization of digital dependence.

This article explores the adaptation of diplomacy to the digital age, focusing on Argentina's application of digital diplomacy. Traditionally, diplomacy involved diplomats representing their countries in exclusive circles, detached from the public. The emergence of “public diplomacy” sought to bridge this gap.

Digital diplomacy enables peripheral countries to project their FP objectives and identity globally, enhance visibility, and communicate successful foreign policies to domestic audiences. This Policy Brief explores Argentina's experience with utilising digital diplomacy as a means of a peripheral country’s FP strategy.

This paper explores precepts and ideologies of the internet generally, and social media companies in particular. It investigates suggestions to return to protocols rather than platforms and explicates that this is too simplistic as general policy. The paper historicizes the way we speak about the internet and seemingly neutral conceptions of freedom and free speech.

Any discourse regarding the use by government officials, governance, or regulation of the internet in general, and social media in particular, must take ideology into account. Policymakers and stakeholders should question in which ways it is compatible with core democratic principles, especially free speech and minority rights.

International relations have changed as a result of the intersection of diplomacy and digital tools. This paper examines the embrace of digital diplomacy by African countries. The integration of digital tools in diplomatic practices offers African countries an array of opportunities to enhance their international engagement.

Based on the literature, official documents and collected via expert interviews with EU officials, this study delves into the state of EU digital diplomacy towards the Global South, problematizing key concepts and categories, exploring the role of actors, audiences and messages, and providing policy recommendations.

Digital diplomacy defined as an extension of traditional public diplomacy, i.e. the use of social media to achieve diplomatic goals has become a key channel for the EU to engage with foreign audiences and promote its soft power. The EU has intensified its digital diplomacy efforts directed at fighting disinformation and winning over countries in the Global South.

This policy brief explores the cooperation of the Quad governments (Australia, the United States, and India) on tackling cyber-borne threats to (inter)national security, focusing on their pledge to pursue certain minimum security standards for software procurement.

This working paper explores the cooperation of the Quad governments (Japan, Australia, the United States and India) on tackling cyber-borne threats to (inter)national security.

The DSA is directed at protecting consumer rights and at enhancing accountability of platforms. The DMA serves to achieve fair competition on the digital market that has taken an oligopoly-like structure. We explain an aspect that is largely overlooked in the debate on the new regulation, its potential to reduce the weaponization of digital dependence.