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REVIEW: Blogging for peace - the reach of digital resistance in the Middle East
  • calender icon June 15, 2016

  • user icon Emma Sky, NewStatesman

On 1 July 2015, Tom Fletcher, the outgoing British ambassador to Lebanon, signed off with an open letter on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office web ...

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The most important war in the Middle East may be online
  • calender icon June 21, 2016

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, Al Arabiya

We are reminded every day that this is a region racked by conflict and instability. The Syrian people are battling for an alternative to the barrel ...

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REVIEW: Naked Diplomacy
  • calender icon June 16, 2016

  • user icon David Patrikarakos, Prospect Magazine

“Diplomacy is Darwinian: its practitioners need to evolve to survive.” This is the first line of Tom Fletcher’s excellent new boo ...

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REVIEW: How different is the digital diplomat?
  • calender icon June 16, 2016

  • user icon Christopher Meyer, The Spectator

Tom Fletcher's engaging Naked Diplomacy is less revolutionary than he appears to think. Tom Fletcher, a young star of the Foreign Office, m ...

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REVIEW: Naked Diplomacy - keep calm and carry on tweeting
  • calender icon June 11, 2016

  • user icon Roger Boyes, The Times

Social media is the way to stay ahead in the diplomacy game, says Roger Boyes. When I became a foreign correspondent in the 1970s I found that ...

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