Wednesday 22 April 2009

Trade and environmental diplomacy: What are the key differences between security, trade and environmental diplomacy?

The key differences between security, trade and environmental diplomacy is clear. Security diplomacy belongs to the old diplomatic process; it involves the old ideology of diplomacy in that it is followed mainly within the bilateral basis with secrecy playing a big parte on the agenda. It is a process that concentrates more on the state most important requirements, such as the protection security both national and international by regulating the balance of power, or even for instance by minimising the threat of terrorism.
Although security is important, trade and environmental diplomacy are becoming as important as security, due to the ever growing interdependency between nation- states and the continuing development of globalisation.Trade is now highly known by all worldwide and this fact alone draws attention to the need of an international agenda that deals with negotiations in order to sustain a reasonable moderate still setting for trade. This is often done multilaterally, and as a result breaks down obstacles in order to create a ‘free-market’ for all. Therefore out of all three, trade diplomacy seems to be more elastic, meaning that it allows trade rules to be controlled bilaterally and more easily.
At last, as environmental issues are becoming ever more noticeable and important for international relations, diplomacy gave light to issues such as climatic change, or even deforestation to be measured, and showed the need for regulations and guidelines to be followed up as a way of retarding its effects.
As a final point security, trade and environmental diplomacy all have distinctive roles in the international arena being security the most important one, and therefore more attractive for states. However, it does not mean that trade and environmental diplomacy are meaningful less.

2 comments:

  1. I really like your blog!
    I was just wondering whether Trade would
    nearly be as important as security, as they're both self-interest issues, whereas environmental diplomacy is not?

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  2. primarily I would think the same about securty and trade being of the same importance. t if you see in my opinion is more important to maintain security of a particular group than maintainig trade flows...this because, for trad to flow and to be consumed a state must first secure its people, to preserve a life is more important than maintaining products import and export...seei ou agree with my point of view...
    and thank you for commenting

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