Technology In Diplomacy

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Technology Driven the Practice of Diplomacy Introduction The technology has been invented and developed since long time ago. With the development of technology, human’s life depends on it. Technology can be useful for human’s life since it can make everything become easier to access. Beforehand, Diplomacy has been done only by the state, however with the development of technology and the easy access of information, diplomacy also can be done by the non-state actors (NGO, TNCs, MNC, etc.). Thus, with the transparency of information rises, it can reshape the diplomacy in international relations. The phenomenon, which caused by the technology, is known as Netpolitik. Netpolitik is a new style of diplomacy, which concern on look for the massive…show more content…
Moreover, the author believes that, the reason why technology is changed the practice of technology is due to the effectiveness and more efficiency for its diplomat. With no doubt, the challenges also come up with the flow of utilizing the technology in diplomacy itself. Therefore, the diplomacy today should beware of how they utilize this technology. The effectiveness that author means is on the process of diplomat to run their job description, for instance in the case of 711 in US. During the day of the issue happened, the investor of its country became aware for their stock, which made them to consider more on their stock. However, due to the effectiveness from its technology, the US government could rebrand the issue, which made the stockholder safe to invest in their country, although they had to trump up the news by their national media in order to make their image good again in the public and stakeholder. Moreover, it is also can be related into the effectiveness on how two countries trying to connect between each other. Beforehand, before the technology existed, they were lack of sources in way to connect each other. Using a postman was their only way to get connected between each other, which it takes time for the bilateral relation. Therefore, after the technology risen up to the human’s life, the period of time is no longer a problem for its diplomat to connect each

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