Thursday, 15 April 2010
what in your opinion is the most important aspect of the new diplomacy
The world of diplomacy keeps on changing its face, globalisation technology, social and political change are the main influence of the continues change in diplomacy (S.Riordan, 2003). today there are many important aspect of the new diplomacy, this are the development in public diplomacy, the contribution of non state actors in diplomacy,the development and role of multilateral diplomacy,the increase corporation when regarding to environmental issue. all of this aspect of diplomacy are playing an important role in today politics, but the one that is showing more effectiveness at this moment is the use of public diplomacy together with multilateral diplomacy.In my opinion it is the most important and most useful aspect of diplomacy today. politicians have notice the importance of the international public support in politics,and how it can make it easy to apply soft power on other states. they are using public diplomacy in multilateral meetings, if you analyse in many summits many politician make decision that are not at their best interest but they do it in form of promoting their regimes.for example in the nuclear summit president Obama used soft power to apply is nuclear strategy were he got china and even Russia to sign nuclear reduction treaties, Were the USA is making publicity that the are for a world free of nuclear dangers and global disarmament china and Russia had no other option them to sign or be seen the world bad guy like Iran (www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/apr/07/world-nuclear-danger-treaty-america)15 April 2010.The media covers all multilateral meeting or summits, and the USA is using Obama global popularity and the media in multilateral meetings and summits to promote its governments and gain more support leaving their enemies no other opposition but cooperate (www.guardian.co.uk/world/barack-obama)15 April 2010. this is why IRAN his now asking for talks, they have no other option as they loosing global support. this is how important public the diplomacy is today.
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Dear Orlando,
ReplyDeleteI just want to respectfully remind you that, President Obama is not the only politician active on the international relations scene, however U.S. foreign policy is not as active as it used to be and it would probably widen up your understanding of the subject if you would, maybe work on your obsession with the only political figure. It is just suggestion, I could be wrong, but in an almost all of your blogs you are referring to President Obama.
In this blog, I am missing any kind of back up of your argument regarding to President Obama and the use of soft power over the China and the Russia in signing NRT. I am not sure that any soft power was actually used, please prove me wrong.