Lithuanian Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Closing the Foreign Policy Gap
Lithuanian Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Closing the Foreign Policy Gap
Author(s): Corneliu Bjola, Rytis PaulauskasSubject(s): Governance, International relations/trade, Politics and communication, Social Informatics, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Foreign Policy Research Center
Keywords: Lithuania; Lithuanian diplomacy; diplomacy in digital age; foreign policy; digital networks; social media;
Summary/Abstract: A capacity for strong adaptive leadership, coupled with an organisational culture open to innovation and experimentation, as well as a commitment to delivering ambitious foreign policy goals in a complex geopolitical context are the key ingredients accounting for this performance. In other words, for digital diplomacy to advance into the next stage, it must enhance its strategic value primarily by ensuring that online influence is successfully converted into offline influence of relevance for foreign policy. Lithuanian digital diplomacy can make to its foreign policy is to help advance the country’s interests and to protect them when they are challenged.
Journal: Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 38
- Page Range: 35-37
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
