International Journal of Cyber Diplomacy / 2020, Volume 1



Cyber Diplomacy - Challenges and Opportunities

Ambassador Viorel ISTICIOAIA-BUDURA

I take the liberty to welcome, from the traditionalist point of view of a diplomat, the dynamic expansion of the opinions in favour of the accentuated configuration of cyber diplomacy. I understand it as an evolution that offers the dedicated practitioner of the discipline multiple opportunities. Briefly inventoried, they indicate the potential open both to the practitioner and to those with an appetite for conceptual refinement, regarding the opportunity to revitalize, reconnect and update the diplomacy. The optimistic perspective may offer false impressions but it also includes a more persistent invitation to consider the realities - or, more pragmatically, a careful dissection of the challenges.

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