Introduction
There are two broad ways of looking at Cyber Diplomacy: one aspect is from a public diplomacy standpoint while the other is from a geopolitical perspective. However, it is cyber diplomacy from this latter viewpoint that should be considered the more precise version of the term. The geopolitical perspective of cyber diplomacy is concerned with the creation of a “diplomacy of cyberspace” and the pursuit of a state’s national cyber-interests on a bilateral and multilateral level. The public diplomacy aspect of Cyber Diplomacy only looks at one facet of cyber diplomacy, which is more commonly referred to as digital diplomacy. Digital diplomacy broadly speaking utilizes the Internet as a tool to further public diplomacy goals and outreach. Having these two ways of looking at Cyber Diplomacy develop congruently has led inevitably to conflation in the literature and among practitioners.
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Chihaia, M.S., Rempala, J. (2021). Cyber Diplomacy. In: Romaniuk, S., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_27-1
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