London Diplomatic Cultures Workshop, June 2013

(1) Landscapes of diplomatic security(2) “Twiplomacy”

Anna W. Moore, University of Oregon

Urban embassy, suburban embassy: The changing landscape of U.S.

diplomatic security

“The upside is that we are more secure, the downside is that you lose the human contact and it makes it way harder to have interactions with people who are not part of the elite. It makes my job less fun. [Some days] you might as well be in Cleveland, looking at the world through a bulletproof plate glass window.”

- Thomas Friedman quoting an FSO, 2003

Istanbul

The (Digital) Diplomatic Subject

Name Title** Number of

Tweets***

Number of

Followers***

Jon Benjamin UK AMB to Chile 4,462 15,635

Carl Bildt Swedish FM 4,831 202,720

Ahmet Davutoğlu* Turkish FM 394 623,078

Tom Fletcher UK AMB to Lebanon 4,273 13,488

William Hague British FS 2,948 147,914

Nasser Judeh Jordanian FM 2,232 33,729

Michael McFaul U.S. AMB to Russia 5,530 47,795

Kristie Kenney U.S. AMB to Thailand 16,571 40,174

Nirupama Rao Indian AMB to U.S., former

Indian FS

3,340 128,080

Susan Rice U.S. AMB to the UN 2,322 289,046

John Roos U.S. AMB to Japan 7,222 61,537

Bruce Wharton U.S. AMB to Zimbabwe 316 1,090

Abdullah bin Zayed* Emirati FM 6,205 718,441

*Does not tweet in English** FM (foreign minister); AMB (ambassador); FS (foreign secretary)***As of 22 May 2013.

The “Twiplomats”