What is it about?
This article explores the tole that international higher education, research and innovation plays in international relations through a knowledge diplomacy approach. It distinguishes knowledge diplomacy from soft power and other types of diplomacies such as cultural, science, public and education diplomacies. Examples and references to knowledge diplomacy from all regions of the world are included to avoid a western bias.
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Why is it important?
Addressing national, regional and global issues and chalenges require a colloborative, multi-sector and multi-lateral approach. Knowledge Diplomacy is instrumental in strengthening relations between and among countries to address issues such as migration, climate change, social justice, biodiversity, poverty and food secturity.
Perspectives
The role of international higher education, research and innvovation in international relations is a vastly understudied but increasingly critical pheonomenon. This article draws on interdisciplinary research and experiences both from international relations and higher education researchers, experts and policy makers from all regions of the world. It provides new insights, highlights misunderstandings and idenifies current challenges
Jane Knight
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Analysing Knowledge Diplomacy and Differentiating It from Soft Power and Cultural, Science, Education and Public Diplomacies, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, December 2022, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1871191x-bja10145.
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