InsSciDE Power with Science Diplomacy Objectives under Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen (UiT)
InsSciDE’s WP2 - Power With Science Diplomacy engages expertise in international relations and political science, as well as history, and philosophy and sociology of science, to provide theoretically-grounded analytical tools for understanding European Science Diplomacy.
WP2 objectives are to:
• Formulate a historically-informed European Science Diplomacy Theoretical Framework (ESD-THEORY) placing science diplomacy within international relations/political science theories on power.
• Using this theoretical framework, provide a transversal layer of structure to the historical studies conducted by WP3-8.
• Propose a European Science Diplomacy Strategy (ESD-STRATEGY) grounded in ESD-THEORY and in the findings of WP3-8.
• Support debate, co-elaboration of the case studies, and generation of strategic recommendations agreed by practitioners and stakeholders in WP1.
Leader of WP2. Power with Science Diplomacy
The "Power With" European Science Diplomacy theoretical framework enables a degree of common structure and a new depth of elaboration for the historical case studies emerging from the other WPs.
WP2 also explicitly seeks out understanding of strategic dimensions, cross-referencing findings with the European Global Strategy, to contribute a strategy framework that can help leverage historical knowledge for European science diplomacy to better address global challenges.
