Strategic Diplomacy:
Rethinking Strategy and Statecraft for the 21st Century of Complexity
Cultivating 'Strategic Diplomacy' in the Indo-Asia-Pacific and Beyond
Strategy is 'the art of creating power'. Statecraft is the skill of governing a sovereign state. We ask: how do international actors mobilize power and exercise statecraft within a world that gives them less control over the outcomes they want to achieve?
The 21st century is the ‘century of complexity’. To be effective, policymakers urgently require knowledge about how to practice diplomacy and statecraft with accentuated strategic rationale.
The ‘Strategic Diplomacy’ project develops an original model of diagnostic analysis and policy-making for complex systems problems in international relations.
The project team is creating unique cross-regional and thematic research case files of effective concepts and practice; new postgraduate education and executive training; and an extensive engagement program with global end-user communities.
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Lead Researchers
Professor of International Relations,
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific,
The Australian National University
Shedden Professor of
Strategic Policy Studies,
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre,
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific,
The Australian National University
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