SCIENCE DIPLOMACY: NEW DAY OR FALSE DAWN? - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 981444006X ISBN 13: 9789814440066

Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2015

Synopsis

 

As modern foreign policy and international relations encompass more and more scientific issues, we are moving towards a new type of diplomacy, known as “Science Diplomacy”. Will this new diplomacy of the 21st century prove to be more effective than past diplomacy for the big issues facing the world, such as climate change, food and water insecurity, diminishing biodiversity, pandemic disease, public health, genomics or environmental collapse, mineral exploitation, health and international scientific endeavours such as those in the space and the Antarctic?

Providing a new area of academic focus that has only gathered momentum in the last few years, this book considers these questions by bringing together a distinguished team of international specialists to look at various facets of how diplomacy and science are influenced by each other.

The book not only dissects the ways that politics, science and diplomacy have become intertwined, but also highlights how the world's seemingly most intractable problems can be tackled with international collaboration and diplomacy that is rooted in science, and driven by technology. It, therefore, challenges the conventional wisdom concerning the juxtaposition of science and the world of diplomacy.

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As modern foreign policy and international relations encompass more and more scientific issues, we are moving towards a new type of diplomacy, known as "Science Diplomacy." Will this new diplomacy of the 21st century prove to be more effective than past diplomacy for the big issues facing the world, such as climate change, globalization, terrorism, mineral exploitation, health and international scientific endeavors such as those in the space and the Antarctic?

Providing a new area of academic focus that has only gathered momentum in the last few years, this book considers these questions by bringing together a distinguished team of international specialists to look at various facets of how diplomacy and science are influenced by each other.

The book will not only dissect the ways that politics, science and diplomacy have become intertwined, but also highlight how the world's seemingly most intractable problems can be tackled with international collaboration and diplomacy that is rooted in science. It, therefore, will challenge the conventional wisdom concerning the juxtaposition of science and the world of diplomacy.

About the Author

Lloyd S Davis is an internationally recognized scientist, as well as an award-winning author and filmmaker. Currently the inaugural Stuart Professor of Science Communication at the University of Otago, he has authored over 130 refereed scientific publications. He is regarded as a world authority on penguins and academic honours bestowed upon him have included a Fulbright Fellowship, an Anzac Fellowship and a Prince and Princess of Wales Science Award. He is the author of seven books and has edited two more. These include The Plight of the Penguin, winner of the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award and Looking for Darwin, winner of the CLL Writers Award for Nonfiction. His eighth book, Professor Penguin, is due to be published in late 2014.

Robert G Patman's research interests concern US foreign policy, international relations, global security, great powers and the Horn of Africa. He is an editor for the journal International Studies Perspectives, and the author or editor of 11 books. Recent publications include a volume called Strategic Shortfall: The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11 (Praeger, 2010) and two co-edited books titled The Bush Leadership, the Power of Ideas, and the War on Terror (Ashgate, 2012), and China and the International System: Becoming a World Power (Routledge, 2013). He is a Fulbright Senior Scholar, a Senior Fellow at the Centre of Strategic Studies, Wellington, an Honorary Professor of the NZ Defence Command and Staff College, Trentham, and provides regular contributions to the national and international media on global issues and events.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 981444006X
• ISBN 13: 9789814440066
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Davis Lloyd, Patman Robert G