Digital Diplomacy as a Tool for Implementing the Foreign Policy of Central Asian Countries (On the Example of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan)
https://doi.org/10.53658/RW2023-3-4(10)-22-35
Abstract
Many countries pay great attention to the use of digital technologies as a tool for implementing their foreign policy. The popularity of modern information and communication achievements, such as the Internet, social networks, mass media, new communication channels, makes it possible to use them to implement the foreign policy objectives of the state.
The purpose of this work is to analyze digital diplomacy, which is considered a new phenomenon in international relations.
The article compares the use of digital tools by the diplomatic missions of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Statistical data are presented for each of the countries, which allowed us to get the most complete picture of digital trends in the diplomacy of the above-mentioned countries.
About the Author
B. Kh. Allamurodov
The Coordination and Methodological center of Uzbekistan’s contemporary history at the Academy of Science
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Bekmurod Holmurod ogly Allamurodov, CandSc. (Polit.) Doctoral student
10007
70 Yahye Gulamov str.
Tashkent
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Allamurodov B.Kh. Digital Diplomacy as a Tool for Implementing the Foreign Policy of Central Asian Countries (On the Example of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan). Russia & World: Sc. Dialogue. 2023;(4):22-35. https://doi.org/10.53658/RW2023-3-4(10)-22-35
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