Diplo Blog
What’s new with cybersecurity negotiations: OEWG 2021-2025 second substantive session
25 April 2022
The UN Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on cyber, which will be active until 2025, held its second substantive session. The discussions were overtaken by an organisational issue that should have been solved at the very...
Time to reflect: Multilateralism Day
24 April 2022
24 April is the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace. This year, as multilateralism is in a profound crisis, it is definitely not a time for celebration. But it is not a time for desperation ei...
Digital governance and diplomacy 2025: A cheat sheet
21 April 2022
The year 2025 will be a landmark year for digital diplomacy and global governance. It is the year of wrapping up the UN cybersecurity OEWG and the negotiations on cybercrime at the Ad Hoc group. It\'s the year UN m...
Will science diplomacy survive?
15 April 2022
Science diplomacy will very likely survive, but in a different form. Diplomats will continue to negotiate scientific collaboration, as they do in other areas of diplomacy such as food, health, and trade. However, scie...
The US is pursuing holistic digital diplomacy
15 April 2022
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US intelligence agencies were fundamentally reformed in order to address fragmentation and policy silos as major reasons for their failure to prevent these attacks. It is now the ...
The Ukraine crisis may shape the future of the internet
15 April 2022
Conflict and crisis, Critical internet resources, Cyberconflict and warfare, Cybersecurity
On 28 February, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov requested that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) cut Russia’s access to the infrastructure of the global internet. This...
Post-COVID-19 economic diplomacy for small states
28 March 2022
Small states, which make up more than half of the world\'s population, employ various tactics and strategies to best position themselves for economic development and political influence in today\'s globalised, multi-p...
5 things to know about central bank digital currency (CBDC)
21 March 2022
Digital data as a legal tender Throughout history, money has evolved, changing its shape. From seashells, paper money, and gold coins, the path of evolution has brought us to ‘contactless’ money. Looking at e-mo...
