On Historical Relationship between Parliamentary and Humanitarian Diplomacy
https://doi.org/10.24833/2782-7062-2023-2-4-8-23
Abstract
The paper analyzes approaches to defining parliamentary and humanitarian venues of diplomatic cooperation. It is shown that institutionalized inter-parliamentary cooperation began to develop in the last quarter of the 19th century, while examples of the influence of parliamentarians on the foreign policy process in their nation-states can be traced back even earlier, at least since the time of the Great French Revolution. It has been revealed that the early forms of parliamentarian influence on foreign policy were based on humanistic arguments and appealed to a sense of humanity. The humanistic orientation of the emerging parliamentary diplomacy in the last third of the 19th century is explained by focusing on factors such as the development of the media and the growing influence of public opinion on the domestic and foreign policies of European nation-states. The similarity of the initial organizational forms of parliamentary and humanitarian diplomacy illustrates the example of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Both types of diplomatic interaction emerged via multilateral conferences. The final section of the paper is devoted to an analysis of the origins of Russian parliamentary and humanitarian diplomacy. It is shown that Russia played an active role in the development of these forms of diplomatic interaction. The paper concludes by arguing that a thorough definition of parliamentary diplomacy is only possible when both the actor and organizational dimensions of parliamentary diplomacy are taken into account. It argues further that the more or less common paths of development of parliamentary and humanitarian diplomacy result in their thematic affinity. The third conclusion is that the parliamentary methods accepted by diplomatic agents profoundly affected the development of cooperation between nation-states during the 20th century.
About the Author
E. S. Gromoglasova
The Apparatus of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elizaveta S. Gromoglasova, Candidate of Political Sciences, Assistant to the State Duma Deputy
1, Okhotny Ryad Str., Moscow, 103265, Russia
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Gromoglasova E.S. On Historical Relationship between Parliamentary and Humanitarian Diplomacy. Governance and Politics. 2023;2(4):8-23. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2782-7062-2023-2-4-8-23
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