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What Is a Science Diplomat?

The COVID-19 crisis has shown how countries initially responded to a global challenge on their own, instead of relying on a multilateral science diplomacy — based response. Although, science diplomacy has received great attention for the past decade, its meaning and

The Sensationalist Discourse of Science Diplomacy: A Critical Reflection

For almost twenty years, the concept of science diplomacy has gained momentum in a public discourse that brings together science policy and international affairs. While some policy actions were newly established and others got into the stride of science diplomacy,

Innovation Diplomacy: A New Concept for Ancient Practices?

This essay questions the concept of innovation diplomacy to determine its true perimeter and its different dimensions. To this end, it quickly addresses the strong points of an argument that appeared in the second half of the 2000s and which

Decolonizing Science Diplomacy: A Case Study of the Dominican Republic’s COVID-19 Response

The COVID-19 pandemic forced healthcare systems globally to handle a dramatic surge in healthcare utilization while also taxing available testing resources. In the context of healthcare systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, COVID-19 added to the existing burden of

Just Needham to Nixon? On Writing the History of “Science Diplomacy”

This introduction examines the growing interest in science diplomacy and the parallel lack of in-depth historical studies on this new concept. In particular, we first show how the recent attention toward science diplomacy has led to a proliferation of hagiographic

WSDS20 Student Takes: Towards a Joint Approach for EU Science Diplomacy

WSDS Student Takes’ is a two-edition series in 2020 and 2021 written by alumni of InsSciDE’s Warsaw Science Diplomacy School in the weeks and months following their completion of the program. This article is by WSDS 2020 alumni who belonged