The importance of the regional dimension of health diplomacy is only gaining slow and uneven recognition. This is in many ways surprising. As demonstrated in the work of Deacon on the 'globalization of social policy', global social policy has been animated and debated not only at the multilateral level but at the regional level as well. But at least in the diplomatic literature, the importance ...

Human rights diplomacy is considered as a consequence of globalization. While many norms and issues are extensively globalized, nonetheless they can be implemented based on cost and benefit analysis (i.e. maximization of benefits and minimization of costs). States have to take their responsibility of human rights by demonstrating their responsiveness towards their people, international organiza...

People are always important only to people. Such practices as “communication”, “cooperation” have developed since mankind created society and not new. The concept of “cultural diplomacy,” aimed at creating maintaining peace stability throughout the world through intercultural relations, forms basis a new science. While science considers research, mechanisms ways, proposed article examines numbe...

Regional organisations can effectively promote regional health diplomacy and governance through engagement with regional social policy. Regional bodies make decisions about health challenges in the region, for example, the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the World Health Organisation South East Asia Regional Office (WHO-SEARO). The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has ...

resident Trump and his administration’s leaders should learn from history and embrace science advice as critical to U.S. national interests. The nascent administration has yet to identify a science and technology (S&T) adviser to the president, a central figure in fortifying American preeminence in science, technology, and innovation. But the president’s science adviser is just one member of a ...

although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. the most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the us, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as public diplomacy and to follow local and international ...

identity has emerged gradually within contemporary debates in social science and has led to vivid debates in international relations. the aim of this article is to show how identity, or identity-oriented approach, may affect fundamental theoretical concepts of ir. at first the importance of identity in theoretical and meta-theoretical debates in ir is discussed. then identity itself is conceptu...

Global health diplomacy is an emerging discipline where health is incorporated into traditional diplomacy as a foreign policy tool. As, with any new area, there is a need for training. This article sets out what global health policy involves and the current academic response to providing training for it.

Summary The American Association for the Advancement of Science and British Royal Society’s science diplomacy taxonomy has received much criticism. Some argue that there is a lack empirical evidence to underpin taxonomy’s three dimensions. This particularly applies third dimension, diplomacy, its effectiveness. Others criticise painting picture compliant scientists who would discard their acade...