Science And Technology Diplomacy Under The Era Of Globalization: Theory And Practice

The globalization is a basic characteristic and trend of development in the world now, and the globalization thought also becomes an important parameter of weighting policy mature or not in the world. With the development of international competition and cooperation, science and technology diplomacy study has become an urgent academic subject. This paper will discuss the subject from five main sections.The first section is on the definition of concepts, mainly analyzing the science and technology diplomacy and its characteristics. Understanding science and technology diplomacy is the premise of elaborating, during this part, the author figures out the features and forms of the science and technology diplomacy and further to explain the differences between politics diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, economic diplomacy and other forms of diplomacy. The second section is about the background research, the author mainly discusses the necessity and the meaning of enhancing science and technology diplomacy for China. On one hand, the globalization and the rapid development of science and technology have changed the form of diplomacy. On the other hand, under the background of China's peaceful development, science and technology diplomacy offers opportunity for China to participate the process of solving the global issues and affords proper international responsibility.The third section is about the theoretical basis for science and technology diplomacy. In this part, the author summarizes the theory from three aspects that are the changes international systems, the rise and fall of the great powers, and the cultivation of international image. Besides, here the author also explores the ways of evaluation of science and technology diplomacy. The fourth section is about the practice analysis and the rational speculation, using a historical event to combine the theory and practice and to testify the theory. The last part mainly introduces the general situation about China's science and technology development, at the same time, the author also figured out the challenges and opportunity and made some suggestions.