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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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‘The Embassy’ (‘Sonnets from China XV’), from Collected Poems by W. H. Auden copyright © 1976 the Estate of W. H. Auden, by permission of Random House Inc.
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Source ISBN: 9780008127589
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Version: 2017-02-20
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
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
4. From Telephone to Television
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
14. Who Runs the Digital Century?
15. The Battle for Digital Territory
17. A Progressive Foreign Policy ‘To Do’ List