Efficiency of the new diplomacy:

The new diplomacy has brought about cooperation between NGOs and multilateral cooperation due to the impact of globalisation which has made trade, investment, travel and information technology much closer to each other. Another important aspect of the new diplomacy is that international law has come into force compared to the 19th and 20th century whereby it was limited to issues such as piracy, wartime embargoes, rights of diplomats which was all about states thus through multilateralism, states have come into agreement through the UN and the EU whereby international law has been put into place and of which states have to abide by it especially when it comes to human rights (Katz, E. Feb.10, 2006).

With the advance of new technology, new diplomacy has made it easy for information to bypass resident ambassadors in a way that coverage such as the media can transfer messages. Example CNN coverage of the Gulf war (Berridge, G.R. 2005:119-120). New diplomacy has also shaped the importance of smaller poor states in a way that they do lack technology due to financial hardships and thus by states coming together through conferences, these countries can easily express their cases like in the UN and also get help in specific fields where they need expertise, for instance when it comes to trade tariffs (Monteiro, A. 29th March 1995).

Last point to make is that it has made travel and work for foreign secretaries much easier in that they can move from one place to another negotiating directly with foreign missions in which they are respected just like the resident ambassador (Taylor, pp. 97-98, 106, 181) and also a leader can send his message directly to a foreign land with the use of modern technology just like Barrack Obama did during his address to the Iranian people.


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