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The Role of Scientific Knowledge in International Policymaking: the Case of European Union's Science Diplomacy
Rosenheim, Adam ; Young, Mitchell (advisor) ; Tomalová, Eliška (referee)
Master's Thesis Adam Rosenheim Summer 2021/2022 Abstract Science has long been an integral part of the relations among nations and of foreign policy endeavours of states. However, the term science diplomacy is relatively new, meaning more theoretically anchored research needs to be developed. Additionally, as the current world's challenges increasingly require a broad international response based on sound scientific knowledge, the worlds of science and policymaking become more interconnected. This thesis, therefore, attempts to articulate its understanding of the concept of science diplomacy and then presents an innovative conceptual framework for the study of the term. The research later analyses the role of specific scientific knowledge in international policymaking in the concrete case of two biodiversity protection strategies of the European Union using the proposed conceptual framework. It concludes that the categories of the proposed framework are not definitive in the sense that they could be assigned to a specific piece of expert-based information when it enters the policy process, which would then retain the categorisation permanently. On the contrary, the research has indicated that the proposed categories serve as temporary designations of the specific information, which can change over time....
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