HOW CAN SCIENCE DIPLOMACY ASSIST TO SUPPORT THE EU’S POLICY GOALS?

Abstract

Recently, there has been greater interest in science diplomacy because countries acknowledge the importance and value of science as a strategic foreign policy tool. The European Union as one of the most significant economic and political union in the world politics has also begun to apply science diplomacy to have a locomotive role in international discussions about the global challenges. Addressing the global challenges is one of the top priorities of the union to remain its position as a global power in the world politics and achieve its aims with respect to wider world as well as increasing the union’s soft power potential by leading the example in the issue. Therefore, climate change as one of the most urgent issue of today’s world has found a place itself in the EU’s extending activities in science diplomacy area. Looking from this perspective, this paper aims to examine that how the EU’s increasingly visible policy decisions in science diplomacy area assist them to support its policy goals in the subject of addressing the global challenges mainly on climate change.