John Robert Kelley’s scientific contributions

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The New Diplomacy: Evolution of a Revolution
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June 2010

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Diplomacy and Statecraft

John Robert Kelley

The continued rise of the non-state actor in twenty-first century international politics issues a potent challenge to state primacy in the area of diplomacy. Diplomacy's statist tradition, once the bedrock organising institution for pursuing international politics, is ceding influence to non-state actors—the “new” diplomats—who have displayed impressive skill at shaping policy through means that foreign ministries fail to grasp. To the chagrin of established scholars and practitioners, this paper claims that nothing has transpired to suggest the diplomatic profession is doing anything but pluralising. Furthermore, the process by which the foreign ministry opens itself to the public increasingly resides with the latter. Does this revolution mean the evolution of the “new diplomacy” has materialised? The contents in the following pages suggest so, and the main reason for this is built upon a radical view of agency: the age of diplomacy as an institution is giving way to an age of diplomacy as a behaviour. Yet despite who dominates in the art of influence, caveats remain and it appears likely that each side will need the other to achieve successful statecraft in the years to come.

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... Nor do they act with the same power or authority. They have been called 'new diplomats' (Kelley, 2010). But both analytically and in policy terms, there is a trend of hybridity in how 'old' and 'new' forms of diplomacy coexist and reinforce one another (Leira, 2018). ...

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Asia-Europe engagements in science, innovation and education exchange: the limits of knowledge in diplomacy
The New Diplomacy: Evolution of a Revolution
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Diplomacy and Statecraft