The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age. Tom Fletcher

Copyright

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      First published as Naked Diplomacy in Great Britain by William Collins in 2016

      Copyright © Tom Fletcher 2016

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      Source ISBN: 9780008127589

      Ebook Edition © June 2016 ISBN: 9780008127572

      Version: 2017-02-20

Dedication

      To Louise, without whom this book would never have been written.

      To Charlie, Theo and Twitter, without whom it would have been written much faster.

      And to the colleagues who march towards the sound of gunfire, in order to try to stop it.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

      

      

       INTRODUCTION TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION

       PREFACE: The Diplomat Who Arrived Too Late

       INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION: Here Lies Diplomacy, RIP?

      

      

       PART ONE – Glad-handing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Short History of Diplomacy

      

      

       1. Early Diplomacy: From Cavemen to Consuls

       2. Diplomacy By Sea: From Columbus to Copyboys

       3. Diplomacy’s Finest Century

       4. From Telephone to Television

       5. From E-mail to E-nvoys

       6. What Makes a Good Diplomat?

      

      

       PART TWO – Statecraft and Streetcraft: Power and Diplomacy in a Connected World

      

      

       7. iDiplomacy: Devices, Disruption and Data

       8. The End of Secrecy? Assange, Snowden and the Death of Bond

       9. Building New Power: Bombs, Books and Beckham

       10. Using New Power: Only Connect

       11. Selling Ladders for Other People to Climb Down

       12. A Naked Diplomat

       13. Envoy 2025

      

      

       PART THREE – What Next?

      

      

       14. Who Runs the Digital Century?

       15. The Battle for Digital Territory

       16. The Case for Optimism

       17. A Progressive Foreign Policy ‘To Do’ List

       18. Citizen Diplomacy

      

      

       EPILOGUE: Valedictory