My personal opinion about the importance of the new diplomacy:

According to my readings, the importance of the new diplomacy is that it does unite nations to come into an understanding negotiating matters of common interest and also at the same time it creates interaction and cooperation between nation states.



With the introduction of new technology, has made communication much easier in that with the use of emails, satellite phones, the media like CNN, and travel in that through these methods, information can easily be communicated to different parties and at the same time due to cheap travel, delegates or foreign ministers can easily travel from one place to the other for negotiation.



The new diplomacy has also made it possible for developing countries to air their views in that these countries might lack embassies or missions and are too poor to afford communicating machineries like the internet thus through conference meetings gives them a chance to negotiate.



Another aspect is that the new diplomacy is that it does involve third parties thus this is important in the sense that when two warring parties fail to come to understanding, the third party will act as an intermediary; example the UN or the EU in conflict solving like in the case of a country that is at war between the government and opposition, the UN or the EU will intervene negotiating on behave of both parties.



The last point I want to make is that the new diplomacy creates skills. In this I mean that personnel working in the foreign office, embassies or consulates are usually trained to represent their countries in particular negotiations like trade, crisis, or security and at the same time, the new diplomacy has created representatives like civil societies that will act on behalf of a particular state to represent in terms of negotiation.