My understanding of diplomacy

My understanding of diplomacy really changed since the start of the module. Diplomacy is increasingly changing. In past years, diplomacy was mainly concerned with security but this trend has changed in recent years to include other issues such as trade and measures against environmental degradation. These issues are called low politics issues and they have opened doors for Non-governmental organisations and International organisations in world politics. These non state actors have a great power in international relations since they influence influence the direction of policy making. The participation of these new actors has changed the nature of diplomacy which led to many arguing that diplomacy has changed from the old, concerned with traditional matters of security to the ‘new’ diplomacy.
Moreover, multilateral diplomacy has grown in importance chiefly because of the new players in the international scene and the new issues that have also become in the international agenda. This has made some suggesting that multilateral diplomacy suggests the demise of bilateral diplomacy and the examples of the European Union which has arguably not finished expanding and the most current one, the G 20 summit, illustrate this argument.