The Most Significant Aspect of New Diplomacy

One of the key manifestations of the new diplomacy is emergening of organisations outside the state sector. For example, in the United Kingdom there are around 200,000 NGOs. NGO have played an increasingly influential role in world affairs, particularly issues such as climate change, human rights organisations and poverty eradication, etc. NGOs represent civil societies which actively participates in international affairs and influences a policy making process which was not possible before. In the other words, diplomats no longer have the monopoly in carrying out diplomatist task.

Even the most powerful nations are no longer the only significant international actors. bilateral state to state diplomacy has been increasingly supplemented by multilateral form of diplomacy, international organisation, both inter - governmental and nongovernmental organisation have become significant diplomatic actors, with at least a rudimentary diplomatic machinery, they can communicate their interest and deploy their resource to influence the outcome of negotiations. For example, NGO such as human rights watch, their role involves by challenging the states which they consider to carry out human rights abuses

The changing interests of states as international actors and the growing number of non state actors involves changed the nature of the new diplomacy as a process of negotiation. Most obvious, it made diplomacy a more complex activity involving more and different actors. States continue to negotiate bilaterally with each other on a state to state basis, but groups of states typically negotiated multilaterally through the auspices of intergovernmental organisations like United Nations and increasingly with the growing range of nongovernmental organisations which sought to influence inter-state behaviour to achieve their objectives. For example NGOs are pushing for the implementations of the global environmental agreements and are trying to tackle the roots of the problems

Finally, Increasingly NGO scrutinise and critise the performance of governments, and indeed few NGOs will be active in diplomatic field, often monitory, the performance of governments, and international or national organisations. ICG is good example in this area. And for that, I would probably argue that the most important aspects of the new diplomacy are the rise of non state actors such as NGO and intergovernmental organisations in the international system.