Month: April 2020

Across the policy discourses and academic literature, the popularity of the concept of “Science Diplomacy” has used the concept in an uncritical manner. This paper aims to understand the concept’s value-added and the implications of …

The article provides another noteworthy example of Science Diplomacy – including North Korea. In a typical international scientific collaboration, the hardest steps are often developing a strong research idea, building a team, formulating a proposal, …

This empirical-based research paper tries to classify the current role of the European Commission in the field of external research policies as compared to the Member States traditionally in charge of it. The article draws …

In this seminal piece of work, Moedas as then-residing EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation propounds his understanding of Science Diplomacy and its role for the future of the European Union in an increasingly …

Global geopolitics are fuelling the renewal of East-West tensions, with deteriorating U.S.-Russia relations in the wake of conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, issues involving cyber-security, and broader concerns about expanding militarisation. Against this backdrop, the …

In “Tools for an EU Science Diplomacy”, Van Langenhove provides a thorough overview over the perception of and tools for Science Diplomacy in the EU, its member states and beyond. Based on the traditional approach …

The challenges of linking scientific collaboration with intergovernmental diplomacy are certainly enormous. However, the G7 states have initiated a process that offers a valuable test case on the conceptual and practical merits of Science Diplomacy …

In 2012, the European Commission clearly communicated that the EU needed a strategic approach to enhance and focus on the EU’s international cooperation activities in research and innovation in particular with a view to preparing …

The article criticises the aforementioned traditional taxonomy of Science Diplomacy (as used in the 2010 landmark report published by the UK Royal Society and the AAAS), which distinguishes between “science in diplomacy”, “diplomacy for science” …

Science Diplomacy together with other new concepts of ‘transnational public–private partnership’ and ‘trans-governmentalism’ are discussed as responding to the public challenges of a globalised world. The volume takes a global governance perspective on the topic …