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Russian Science Diplomacy: The path to global leadership
- Writer jinwon529
- Date 2024-01-29 14:14
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Russian Science Diplomacy: The path to global leadership
Zakharov Oleg
Abstract
Science diplomacy serves as both a catalyst for global cooperation, addressing shared challenges, and a reflection
of national interests, expressing intentions to benefit from cooperation. Such duality is a subject of debate in academic
community, especially when considering national policy implementation. Russia has always been a participant of
international cooperation in science and technology, but interest in the study and comprehensive development of
science diplomacy as an independent concept emerged later than in Western countries. The present paper examines
the main features of Russian science diplomacy: its changes, related previous and actual policy documents, main actors
and achievements in this field. Russian science diplomacy is integrated into the system of international scientific and
technical cooperation (ISTC) and as it stands from review, heavily depends on the foreign policy environment. With
the newly accepted ISTC Concept in 2019, Russia declares its intention to maintain global leadership in the world,
including by the means of science diplomacy, which is understood as a direction of public diplomacy.
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