Despite all the helpful features of the technology, especially the information and communication technology, on diplomacy, there are also numbers of the limitation of the technology that are in some way become the double-edge sword for the diplomacy itself. There are three main limitation of the technology itself for the practice of diplomacy which are the pervasive surveillance, cyberwar, and loss of privacy. In addition to that, the using of the technology, specifically the social media, for diplomacy has been giving both ease and difficulties for diplomacy itself. The difficulties itself can be found in the spread of propaganda in the social media.
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The DNA of diplomacy starts to change during the cold war era in which states did not fight through the armies any longer but instead the spread of the ideology to other states. In 21st century, the diplomacy is no longer talking about war but instead it is today focus on the cooperation among the states and international trade.
The technology, especially the information and communication technology, plays a very crucial role in the changing of the diplomacy’s DNA. The presence of internet has made people connected globally which then known as the globalization phenomena in which the borders among state start to fade. The globalization has not only connected people but also the states and encourage the states to cooperate one another which then created the interdependence of the states in the world. Nowadays, diplomacy has been focusing on the management of the relations between both states and states to other actors. The activities of diplomacy are also notably changed by the technology from a conventional diplomacy to a modern diplomacy as follow:
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