Here you can browse an assortment of publications on science diplomacy, compiled by the Alliance team as we come across them.
Publications by InsSciDE, S4D4C and EL-CSID are not included here. Click here to find resources by the projects.
WSDS21 Student Takes: Space diplomacy then and now
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 2021 alumni who belonged to ’Team Space', named after the historical case study of ...
Science Diplomacy Review – April 2021
Science Diplomacy Review Vol. 3 | No. 1 | April 2021 Open Access https://fisd.in/sites/default/files/SDR_April%202021.pdf ARTICLES From Securing the State to Safeguarding the Atom: The Relevance of History to Nuclear Diplomacy Maria Rentetzi The Speedy Transmission of Corona Infections – Rebooting Science Diplomacy Trithesh Nandan A New Generation of Trainings on ...
SFIC Opinion on the European Commission Communication „Global approach to research and innovation – Europe’s strategy for international cooperation in achanging world”
The Strategic Forum on International Cooperation published on 23 September 2021 the SFIC Opinion on the European Commission Communication „Global approach to research and innovation - Europe's strategy for international cooperation in a changing world”. One of the objectives of the opinion is also to give input for driving forward ...
Council Conlusions on the EU Global Approach to Research and Innovation
The Council conclusions on the Global Approach to R&I, Europe's strategy for international cooperation in a changing world have been adopted on 28 September 2021. Among other aspects the conclusions underline the importance of openness and international cooperation in research infrastructures for the advancement of science, science diplomacy, tackling global ...
European Commission: Global Approach to Research and Innovation
The Global Approach to Research and Innovation (R&I) presents the Commission's perspective for Europe's strategy on international cooperation in research and innovation. It was launched in May 2021 - for more information, please see: Communication on the Global Approach to Research and Innovation Press release: Europe's global approach to cooperation ...
A repository for bilateral science and technology agreements: B-STA-R
see https://data.gesis.org/sharing/#!Detail/10.7802/2310 The B-STA-R dataset provides information on more than 1138 bilateral agreements on cooperation in matters of science and technology, mostly concluded by countries of the G20 and OECD in the period between 1937 and 2020. These science and technology agreements (STA) are intergovernmental treaties in which the participating ...
WSDS21 Student Takes: ITER – SD success or failure?
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 2021 alumni who belonged to ’Team Space', named after the historical case study of ...
France’s Science Diplomacy
According to the most widely used criterion, nominal GDP, France is the seventh-largest power in the world. With 178 embassies and permanent representations, its diplomatic network is the third largest in the world. A permanent member of the UN Security Council, with a strong army, France can influence the affairs ...
Governing Technosciences in the Age of Grand Challenges
This article explores the co-shaping of global challenges and governance of science and technology through time. It aims to address the issue of governance of science and technology as governing through local (regional, national) and international negotiations and institutions. At the center of the analysis is the entanglement of technology, science, diplomacy, ...
Building a Science Diplomacy Curriculum
Science diplomacy is a fast-growing field of research, education, and practice dedicated to better understanding and reinforcing the connections between science, technology, and international affairs to tackle national and global challenges. Interest from early career scientists and young diplomats to learn more and engage at the science-diplomacy nexus is growing ...
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 nature of the diverse practitioners involved remain elusive. Science ...
Science Diplomacy and Soviet-American Academic and Technical Exchanges
The 1958 Lacy-Zarubin agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges marked decades of people-to-people exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union. Despite the Cold War tensions and mutually propagated adversarial images, the exchanges had never been interrupted and remained unbroken until the Soviet Union dissolved. This essay argues ...
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, the public discourse kept proliferating and has greatly enlarged the ...
Collaboration and Competition: The Twofold Logic of Science Diplomacy
From an attentive reading of the practitioner-driven literature, this essay questions the reasons why the dominant discourse on science diplomacy highlights practices based on international co-operation and the pursuit of shared interests but pays little attention to practices which are inspired by a spirit of competition. It advances hypotheses related ...
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 establishes in a very general way a filiation, or even ...
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 infectious diseases related to endemic infections such as arboviruses and ...