Driving diplomacy into cyberspace.
Information technologies are having a sweeping impact not only on how diplomats do business, but on the nature of diplomacy itself and on the speed at which such diplomacy is conducted. These changes are broadly based, irreversible, and beyond the control of diplomats. If the transition to a techn...
| Publicado en: | World Today Vol. 53; pp. 156 - 159 |
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Royal Institute of International Affairs
June 1997
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