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A new diplomacy for sustainable development : the challenge of global change
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- Summary
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Accelerating, human-induced changes in global natural systems, with global warming as a prime example, are modifying international relations. Diplomacy has to recognize that new types of threats wi...
Accelerating, human-induced changes in global natural systems, with global warming as a prime example, are modifying international relations. Diplomacy has to recognize that new types of threats will require new solutions and a new spirit of cooperation. This is a gradual process; traditional conflicts will continue to haunt the international system and traditional methods of diplomatic work still prevail. Based on forty years of experience in multilateral negotiations as former diplomat and international negotiator, the author has developed the concept of a New Diplomacy for Sustain
Details
- Creator
- Bo Kjellen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Routledge, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781135904289, 9780203941614, 9781135904272, 1135904278, 0415804914, 130657465X, 0203941616, 0415958393, 1135904286, 9780415958394, 9780415804912
- OCLC
- ocn876592388
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.
- English
- pt. 1. Concepts -- 1. Reflections on sustainable development -- 2. Global change, globalization and the economic dimension -- 3. The new diplomacy for sustainable development -- pt. 2. Practice -- 4. The North-South divide -- 5. The uneasy friendship : United States/Europe -- pt. 3. Global sustainability in the twenty-first century -- 6. The interface between the national and the international: the concept of "enabling conditions" -- 7. The new diplomacy at work : the next decades