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Diplomacy—the art of promoting and defending state interests—is several thousand years old. The pervasive connectivity that now dominates global commerce and communication through the Internet is, by contrast, brand new—barely two decades, depending on the start date we choose. Foreign ministries are conservative institutions. Almost without exception, they have not adjusted their more traditional practices of diplomacy to promote and defend their national cyber interests on the world stage. Cyber diplomacy has been birthed but is facing existential challenges in its early development.