Military adventurism has given way to a more cautious approach to international relations, with a much greater reliance on diplomacy and politics. In the era of retrenchment, has diplomacy become a mere charade? And how has the digital 24 hour news age and rise of social media affected the practice of diplomacy?  Recorded live at Editorial Intelligence’s annual ideas festival Names Not Numbers.

Chair: Toby Mundy, Chief Executive and Publisher, Atlantic Books
Panel: Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent and Anchor, CNN
Susan Gibson, Board Member, International Rescue Committee UK
Rear Admiral Chris Parry CBE, Security Expert and Strategic Forecaster 
James Rubin, Visiting Scholar, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford