Discussing New Diplomacies in light of Soft Power Theory
Mon, Aug 30
|Online panel @ ECPR annual conference
An academic panel at ECPR annual conference: This panel will discuss new diplomacies practices and policies and will present current political phenomena that demonstrate the EU's (as well as other neighboring actors') attempts to promote its interests in the global sphere.
Time & Location
Aug 30, 2021, 12:00 PM – Sep 03, 2021, 4:20 PM
Online panel @ ECPR annual conference
Guests
About the Event
The new diplomacies discussion refers to the transition in diplomacy from state actors' sole engagement to multiple actors' engagement to build trust and enhance communication, dialogue-based, with foreign publics. This transition contains new opportunities in developing tools and channels of communication directly or with digital mediation, with the foreign public. As such, it includes a potential response to the crucial needs of 1) Gaining access to the foreign public, especially in times of crisis, 2) Developing credibility among foreign publics, considering the frequency of misinformation 3) Building strong relationships. The importance of these elements rising in today's global context, a worldwide pandemic that brings to the fore the need to address shared global challenges. Under this capacity, the evolving types of diplomacy associated with public and cultural diplomacy offering a complex and varied discourse. That is no longer researched solely as the practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of states…