Perhaps as much as anything, we need to advance digital diplomacy with a sense of determination based not just on new circumstances and hopeful lessons from the past, but history’s sobering failures as well. We were reminded of this when we visited the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva for a speech in November 2017. The Palais des Nations, which now houses the UN, served as the headquarters for the League of Nations in the 1930s. The building still has several small art deco conference rooms that reflect the post–World War I era.
