Tweeting as Statecraft: How, Against All Odds, Twitter Is Changing the World’s Second Oldest Profession

Crossroads -- The Macedonian Foreign Policy Journal

April 1, 2012

"Twitter has taken diplomacy by storm," write CIGI Distinguished Fellow Jorge Heine and his co-author Joe Turcotte in their article exploring "the manner in which these new tools [social media] are affecting the practice of a highly traditional craft, more set in its ways than most."

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Former CIGI Chair of Global Governance

Former Research Assistant