The most important aspect of new diplomacy for me are the involvelment of non governmental orgainisation, public diplomacy and new information technology. These new appraches to diplomacy have revolutionised this idea of 'new diploamcy'.
The involvement of NGOs (non-governmental organisations) in every aspect of international negotiations has revitalised new approaches and new options, thereby stifling the ability of traditional government actors to operate uninterrupted. They have played an important and influential role in many international negotiations for the past fifty years. In Bosnia, there were a lot non governmental orgainisation co-operating with other governments agencies in trying to resolve the conflict. Secondly, public diplomacy has adopted a lot of different methods in engaging with foreign public . These fundamental changes have created a new set of expectations for international relations.
Moreover, the binding forces of globalisation and new technological transformation have made these new diplomacy a force and efficient in resolving some recent conflicts around the world. Finally, the system of old diplomacy ie government to government communication and self-interest will never disappear.
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According to your draft you highligted very well the importance of NGO's,but i hope that you bear in mind that they are not diplomats despite doing tremendous jobs in human rights and humanitarian interventions for instance.
ReplyDeleteBy stating that Old Diplomacy is important, do you think that it is more important than New Diplomacy?
I think both old and new diplomacy are important in dealing with any international relations.
ReplyDeletethese two comment are very funny, I cannot stop laughing because the question that Augustin asked is the same essay essay question..hihihi :-)am doing an essay on that and Emanuel good answer...
ReplyDeleteThe question Augustin poses goes right to the heart of the module. Emanuel's answer seems most reasonable and is the sort of line developed by Hocking and others: that the old system of diplomacy coexists with the new developments Emanuel outlines. How the traditional institutions of diplomacy are challenged, reshaped and transformed in the process is the really interesting question. But some analysts, for example Riordan, have a much more radical approach to this question, seeing the old instutions as entirely outdated.
ReplyDeleteIt would be good to see you engaging with the specific arguments and evidence presented by these authors.