CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY AND STUDIES ON DIPLOMACY

Preventive Digital Diplomacy in International Relations in Future

Offsetting complexity of societal dialogue, netizen has dripped down mollifying social contract – which is also redefining new context in international relations (IR) indeed. With emergence of the Internet, especially web 2.0, convenient media structure has been reshaping to meet expectation of public and new dynamics of social relations are also gaining new vibes which sometimes turns into con...

International Diplomacy in Perspective-A Contextual Analysis

Public Diplomacy Between Theory and Practice

This paper reflects on trends in public diplomacy and on some of Spain’s public diplomacy challenges. The author is a member of the Working Group ‘Una Diplomacia Pública para España’. The paper is the text of a presentation delivered at the first Madrid Conference on Public Diplomacy, which was held on 10 October 2006 at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Diplomatic School. Organised by t...

Floods and International Relations in South Asia: An Assessment of Multi-Track Diplomacy

International cooperation over the major rivers in South Asia became closer with the signing in 1996 and 1997 of five innovative water, power and economic cooperation agreements. The innovations include four elements: (i) the transfer of some previously diplomatic questions into the sphere of the private economy, (ii) bringing third parties, other than governments, into the design and negotiati...

Science in Diplomacy

Throughout human history, science and technology have been the backbone of innovations that have driven economic development. Yet, rather oddly, they have not been seriously invoked in the pursuit of diplomacy. This Commentary examines the important role of science in diplomacy and its soft-power in world affairs and peace.