Manfredi-Sánchez Juan-Luis, Hare Paul Webster
University of Castilla-La Mancha.
Boston University.
Glob Policy. 2021 Sep;12(4):574-576. doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.12961. Epub 2021 Sep 19.
The pandemic has shown a diplomatic system that is dysfunctional. No institution or groups of states was willing or able to take the lead in crafting shared actions to shared problems. The crisis coincided with pressures on diplomacy from deglobalization. This has accelerated a fragmentation of norms and increased willingness to use public diplomacy and digital communication as a point-scoring unidirectional method of self-gratification. The private, painstaking discourse of diplomacy is fading fast. The United Nations needs to urge its members to reassert the values and give new attention to how diplomacy is conducted, building on existing conventions. Meanwhile, tele-diplomacy offers a medium where diplomacy could reassert itself as the core activity that will enable collective global issues to be addressed. The paper examines how such tele-diplomacy might be established.
这场疫情暴露出外交体系功能失调。没有任何机构或国家集团愿意或能够带头针对共同问题制定共同行动方案。这场危机与去全球化给外交带来的压力同时出现。这加速了规范的碎片化，也增加了将公共外交和数字通信作为一种用于自我满足的单向得分手段的意愿。外交中私下里的、煞费苦心的对话正在迅速消失。联合国需要敦促其成员国重申这些价值观，并重新关注外交如何基于现有公约来开展。与此同时，远程外交提供了一个平台，外交可以借此重新确立自身作为核心活动的地位，从而能够解决全球共同问题。本文探讨了如何建立这种远程外交。
