In 2017, a simple tweet or status update can have far-reaching consequences for a country’s foreign policy and the geo-political dynamic of a region.
Digital technologies and new media are at once disrupting and transforming the nature, conduct and intensity of political dialogue in today’s world, in ways that impact directly and profoundly on all aspects of diplomatic practice.
Griffith Asia Institute (GAI), in collaboration with the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), will host the second annual Brisbane Roundtable on Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific: The Digital Challenge on October 26.
The 2017 dialogue builds on the previous Brisbane Roundtable held in May 2016 and will be led by the Griffith Asia Institute Director, Professor Caitlin Byrne, and Professor Jan Melissen, Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague and Professor of Diplomacy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Professor Melissen is a global
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