The Mekong River courses over some 2700 miles of dramatically changing terrain, traverses six Southeast Asian countries from China’s Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, supports one of the planet’s most productive inland fisheries, and continues to reshape a region it has defined for thousands of years. So powerful is the discharge from the swollen Mekong during the June to October rainy se...

Abstract This article applies a science diplomacy lens to examine Sweden’s 1967–1968 intervention in the United Nations—the so-called “Swedish initiative”—that led seminal 1972 UN Conference on Human Environment. The three classic typologies—science diplomacy, for and diplomacy—are employed structure an analysis of how Swedish diplomats skillfully leveraged diplomatic objectives, first convinci...

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is an exemplar result of global health diplomacy, based on its global reach (binding on all World Health Organization member nations) and its negotiation process. The FCTC negotiations are one of the first examples of various states and non-state entities coming together to create a legally binding tool to govern global health. They have demons...

Disaster diplomacy examines whether or not disasters induce international cooperation amongst enemy countries. The 26 December, 2004 tsunami around the Indian Ocean impacted more than a dozen countries, many with internal or external conflicts, thereby providing an opportunity to explore how the same event affects different countries in different disaster diplomacy contexts. Two groups of case ...

The article deals with the concepts of "international cultural cooperation", "cultural diplomacy" and "public which are not identical. Cultural public diplomacy noted to have clearly determined goals, aimed at ensuring national interests. It is emphasized that international cooperation, in contrast relations, does arise spontaneously, but as result purposeful actions subjects. tools mentioned a...

Научная «вакцинная дипломатия» между Россией и США: сохраним наследие Питер Дж. Хотез (Peter J Hotez)1,2,3,4 1Институт вакцины им. Сэбина и Центр разработки вакцины детской больницы Техаса, отделения педиатрии, молекулярной вирусологии и микробиологии, Национальная школа тропической медицины, Бейлорский медицинский колледж, Хьюстон, Техас, США 2Институт общественной политики имени Джеймса Бейке...

Japan’s values diplomacy was proposed by Tarou Asou Taro Aso in 2007. And in the period of Fukuda ruling, this diplomacy contemporarily withdrew from Japanese diplomatic stage, but its democratic values concept is still displayed in diplomatic activities. After Tarou Asou Taro Aso became the prime minister, what would be the position of values diplomacy in Japanese strategy and national policy?...

Although the colonial ideology often masks the fact, diplomacy has been a major part of the colonial encounter. In Canada, diplomacy in its many guises has been carried out between the colonizing Europeans and EuroCanadians since first contact between them. This diplomacy can be immediately broken up into at least two distinct periods: pre-colonial and colonial diplomacy. The first is marked by...

Medical diplomacy, the collaboration between countries to improve relations and simultaneously produce health benefits, is a form of soft power that has major benefits for both countries involved and should be seen as a model for international relations. Cuba has adeptly used medical diplomacy since 1960 to garner symbolic capital (prestige, good will, and influence) way beyond what would other...