Drifting Towards Digital Foreign Policy

In the time of coronavirus, information and communication technologies have rapidly promoted the digitalization of various fields. We face such shifts in the process of implementing foreign policy agendas around the world. Digital capabilities have become key instruments for governments to achieve their internal and external objectives. Through using digital platforms states and international organizations are holding online conferences, summits and making decisions. Social networks have become key instruments for promoting definition of foreign policy priorities. Therefore, on the one hand, it is essential to examine how technological advances including Artificial Intelligence can facilitate the implementation of foreign policy goals. On the other hand, it is significant to analyze the challenges of digital tools, instruments that may have negative impacts on diplomacy. Based on these issues, the article explores the digitalization of foreign policy to understand new forms of diplomacy in the new era.