CSDiploNet strives to support the facilitation of civil societies’ transnational and transforming cooperation development. Our evaluation scale is based on five maxims as follows: 


 

1  Every political system – on regional and/or world order level – is primarily to dedicate to human worth and its free individual as societal implementation on the basis of interconnectedness and efficient human security.
 

2  Individual humans decisions and interactions in societies / inter-societal organizations always provide the determinative basis and source for the legitimacy of their states’ power usage, their institutions and governments as well as the bureaucracies to serve the implementation of their societal decision-making in principle and in fact. This is especially to apply in regard to the complex constellations of globalization and multilateral interdependencies:
 

3  International cooperation and in particular the transnational peace keeping / building and the human security generation non-conditionally demands the full and unlimited societies’ legitimacy in order to facilitate a clear world order processing and to conciliate/pacify international conflicts even preventively.
 

4  The lack of legitimacy also in constitutional democracies and the missing of competent and farsighted “good" government especially on the level of inter-governmental organizations proofs the international system's failing because of being driven by states as the exclusive forces / actors in “public” diplomacy. That way the international system actually leaves just the "options" between anarchy and hierarchy.  
 

5  The globally demanded change particularly to create a humane and adequate international system based on equivalent governance structures requires a global / universal contract social, an international polity design being guided by civil societies' will and their strong global cooperation in order to guarantee the best practice in the states’ governing and implementing their decisions - principally and functionally: as long as global societies need the "nation-states" as a tool for international regime building.

 

These maxims also describe the “Third Way” - instead of 'anarchy or hierarchy' being the only choice - to save and to transform the international system in accordance to the co-existential interdependencies and interconnectedness of human beings, their peaceful, integrous interaction and their safe as well as transpersonal development in processing a real humane world order.


 

J Michael Heynen, Initiator/Coordinator
Civil Society Diplomacy Network

 

INTRODUCTION TO

CIVIL SOCIETY AND DIPLOMACY/FOREIGN POLICY |

PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

“Global Civil Society” by John Keane (2003)

https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2009/SOC777/Keane_GCS.pdf

„The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance” by Manuel Castells (2008)

https://prtheories.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/45138545/Castells_2008_The_New_Public_Sphere.pdf

“Civil Society and Public Interest Diplomacy” by Louise Arbour (2009)

https://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/speeches/2009/civil-society-and-public-interest-diplomacy.aspx

“The Role of Civil Society in Foreign Policy: A New Conceptual Framework” by Alfredo Sfeir-Younis

https://blogs.shu.edu/diplomacy/files/archives/03_sfeir_younis.pdf

“Civil Society for Peace Diplomacy - The role of civil society in peace building and intercultural dialogue” by Democrat Youth Community of Europe (DEMYC, 2009)

https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/youth/Source/Training/Study_sessions/2009_DEMYC_en.pdf

“Globalization, Democracy, and Civil Society: An Assessment” by Richard Rousseau, Contributor (2014)

https://www.diplomaticourier.com/globalization-democracy-and-civil-society-an-assessment/

“Cultural  Diplomacy Initiatives in Civil Society” by ICD Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (2011)

https://www.cd-n.org/index.php?en_cd-outlook-2011_chapter-5

„Diplomacy in a Globalizing World“ by Pailine Kerr and Geoffry Wiseman

https://apcd.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/Flyer%20Diplomacy%20book.pdf

“Diplomacy as an instrument of good governance” by J. Kurbalija (1998)

https://www.diplomacy.edu/resources/general/diplomacy-instrument-good-governance

"Diplomacy as Global Governance" - Lecture Series Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders" by Iver Neumann (2015)

https://www.normativeorders.net/de/veranstaltungen/ringvorlesungen/79-uncategorised/3553-diplomacy-as-global-governance

"WORLD POWER AND WORLD ORDER FROM THE SELF - 11 Theses on New Start and Development of a Human World"  by  J Michael Heynen