the scientific development in today’s globalized environment calls for increasing interaction with scientific and technological centers. scientific networks and networking with reliance on scientific and academic experts constitute one of the existing strategies to achieve this objective. through the passage of history, iran has had economic and cultural exchange with countries located in the i...

In the 21st Century, distinctions and boundaries between global health, international politics, and the broader interests of the global community are harder to define and enforce than ever before. As a result, global health workers, leaders, and institutions face pressing questions around the nature and extent of their involvement with non-health endeavors, including international conflict reso...

1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Departments of Medical Humanities and Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, 3 James A. Baker III Inst...

Water diplomacy is gaining increasing attention among both researchers and policy-makers. The interest understandable, given that the concept brings together themes such as shifting geopolitics, new types of water scarcity. Yet, there no common definition for actual actions typically vary across multiple tracks scales. In this article, we seek to contribute practice by introducing a step-wise D...

What is the role of non-state actors in international politics labour migration Gulf Cooperation Council countries? This paper employs a ‘migration diplomacy’ framework order to examine regional mobility while interrogating assumed centrality state this process. It focuses on into United Arab Emirates and draws range primary sources identify four types that seek maximise their interests within ...

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...