Cognitive Diplomacy and Digital Autonomy: Statecraft in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Hardcover

Akıllı, Erman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3032044693 ISBN 13: 9783032044693

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

Synopsis

In a world increasingly governed by code, how do states preserve influence, identity, and agency?
Cognitive Diplomacy and Digital Autonomy: Statecraft in the Age of Artificial Intelligence explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the foundations of international relations. From algorithmic negotiation to AI-driven soft power, this book offers a strategic framework; rooted in the triad of presence, practice, and resilience for navigating diplomacy in the digital age. With case studies from the Global South, and beyond, it reveals how emerging powers are crafting new paths to sovereignty and global relevance.
Balancing theoretical insight with real-world application, this timely work charts the contours of a new diplomatic era, where cognitive environments matter as much as material ones, and digital autonomy is the new currency of strategic independence.
Essential reading for scholars, diplomats, and decision-makers confronting the frontiers of AI and global order.

About this title

About the Author

Erman Akıllı is Professor in the Department of International Relations at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University. His areas of expertise include artificial intelligence in foreign policy, digital diplomacy, public diplomacy, and its sub-branches. Additionally, he continues his work as an assistant editor for the Insight Turkey journal published by SETA.

From the Back Cover

This is a timely and essential guide to AI-driven international relations. Introducing cognitive diplomacy and the pillars of digital autonomy—presence, practice, and resilience—this book offers a strategic vision and practical tools for navigating the technopolar era. A vital read for policymakers, diplomats, and scholars shaping the future of global security.

-Dr. Jon-Hans Coetzer, United Nations Institute for Training and Research

Prof. Akilli offers a bold new vision for 21st-century statecraft as global power shifts from territory to technology. Timely and thought-provoking, this book equips leaders and thinkers with the tools to assert agency and resilience in an increasingly technopolar international system.
-Dr. Nancy Snow, Principal, Global Persuasion Strategies 

Of all the challenges facing international relations in the 21st century Artificial Intelligence seems to be simultaneously the most consequential and the least understood. In this timely study Erman Akilli develops a conceptual framework for our collective understanding that deserves to be widely read.
-Dr. Nicholas J. Cull, Professor of Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California.

 

 

In a world increasingly governed by code, how do states preserve influence, identity, and agency?
Cognitive Diplomacy and Digital Autonomy: Statecraft in the Age of Artificial Intelligence explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the foundations of international relations. From algorithmic negotiation to AI-driven soft power, this book offers a strategic framework; rooted in the triad of presence, practice, and resilience for navigating diplomacy in the digital age. With case studies from the Global South, and beyond, it reveals how emerging powers are crafting new paths to sovereignty and global relevance.
Balancing theoretical insight with real-world application, this timely work charts the contours of a new diplomatic era, where cognitive environments matter as much as material ones, and digital autonomy is the new currency of strategic independence.
Essential reading for scholars, diplomats, and decision-makers confronting the frontiers of AI and global order.

 

Erman Akıllı, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of International Relations at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3032044693
• ISBN 13: 9783032044693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 303