دبلوماسية الامم المتحدة الرقمية

Abstract

This research addresses the impact of the Internet on modern diplomacy, based on the United Nations’ experiment. This research seeks to determine the impact of the Internet as a new element contributed to changing the composition of the structure of international relations, and various activities of contemporary diplomacy, and the search for optimal ways on how contemporary diplomacy meets such impact, which is in a range of new challenges. The research also seeks to reach vision to utilize the Internet and use it in achieving the goals of contemporary diplomacy. This research emerged from several assumptions which the researcher tested through this study. It was among these hypotheses that the advent of the Internet has made a significant impact in an environment of the international relations, having created the information age. The information age has put the contemporary diplomacy before new challenges didn't experienced before. The research assumed that the gap, is the inability of the contemporary diplomacy to cope with the new international environment created by the Internet. This gap includes strategies and old concepts, which dominate the diplomacy. There is a need for diplomatic cadres of certain attributes to keep pace with change brought about by the Internet, with the provision of training programs that fit with this stage. This research also assumed that the United Nations had used the Internet in the development of its internal management performance, and took advantage of the characteristics of the Internet in spreading its message and achieve its objectives, in particular the Millennium objectives of mankind development. The United Nations has led diplomacy to find a global information system based on the Internet. This research found that the Invention of the Internet in the nineties of the last century has affected the contemporary diplomacy, in terms of concepts and activities. This effect can not known without being subjected to the general development that took place in the technology of communication means. The first appeared in the emergence of diplomacy from secrecy to publicity stage, and multiple themes dealt with. The growing force of public opinion due to the advent of the Internet, and development of technology of communication means, and the emergence of new players in the international arena, has laid its shadow on the contemporary diplomacy. The research concluded that there is an urgent need for contemporary diplomacy with new visions, in order to positively deal with the impact created by the Internet. No longer the role of embassies and foreign missions is limited only to send news and reports, through the traditional means, such as diplomatic pouch, or trying to compete with news agencies in the speedy delivery of news to the capitals. There is a need to have an influential contemporary diplomacy to realize the changes that have occurred in the environment of the International relations, and solid ability to extract results and reading between the lines of the enormous amount of available information. Also, to come up with recommendations to the capitals contribute to the achievement of targets set for the foreign policy of the country concerned