Thursday 15 April 2010

The new diplomatic arena

With the emergence of the new diplomacy, the international negotiation arena augmented the number of seats and recitals to play. We have heard human rights issues, humanitarian aids, transboundary environmental issues, free trade, which involves an increase of the actors on the said above arena.
While the “old diplomacy” respected the state boundaries, the frontiers in the “new diplomacy” are transparent, now the curtains behind the actors on the scene are available for the spectators. The globalized arena permits the spreading of knowledge, information, new technologies including weapons; air pollution, impoverished biodiversity, water pollution etc. The occurrence of these positive and negative globalizational facts necessitated the creation of international rules governing above the states and because of the recklessness of the negotiators to operate these symptoms of globalization it was made the appearance of non-state actors speaking together with the global citizens, thus involving them on the negotiating international arena.
A recent example is my involvement as a citizen of Europe (organized by Greenpeace) in signing a European petition which aims to obtain 1 million of signatures for a moratorium on all European Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) approvals until the reforms required by the member states have not been completed by the Commission. I am playing a role on the arena, a minuscule role, but gathered together with the other participants we are speaking as negotiators. This invention incorporated in the “new diplomacy” is giving a chance for the better and for the worse, but the increase of the players strengthens the successful outcomes of the negotiations.

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