As the global balance of power shifts and new actors, technologies, and narratives reshape the diplomatic arena, today’s diplomats and international professionals must operate across a broader spectrum of issues, platforms, and stakeholders. This one-week executive course offers a deep dive into the evolving landscape of global affairs, equipping participants with the tools to navigate complexity, build influence, and engage strategically in an increasingly multipolar, digitised, and contested world.
Objectives
- Trace the historical foundations of geopolitical thinking and analyse how global power has shifted over time, shaping today’s strategic landscape
- Identify and evaluate the roles of new diplomatic actors, including parliaments, cities, and defence institutions, and how their practices reshape international relations
- Examine the geopolitical implications of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, from diverse regional perspectives with a focus on Asia
- Understand and assess the impact of disinformation and influence operations and explore strategies for debunking and countering such threats in diplomatic contexts
Who should apply?
This programme is particularly relevant for mid-to senior-level practitioners from various organisations working or aspiring to work as:
- Early career diplomats and members of permanent missions
- Professionals in the fields of governmental affairs, compliance, corporate social responsibility, environment, social and governance and sustainability
- Policy and governance officers and head of programme
Certificate
Executive Certificate of Attendance for the Diplomacy in a New International Order programme
DAY 1
- Geopolitics: the past, present
- Transformations of multilateralism
DAY 2
- The modern diplomate (from diplomacy to diplomacies)
- Corporate diplomacy
DAY 3
- Diplomatic protocol in practice
- Parliaments and the transformation of diplomacy
DAY 4
- Armed forces, defence and security sector
- Media relations
DAY 5
- Persuasion and Influence
In a global landscape marked by turbulence and complexity, diplomacy remains a cornerstone, essential for engaging a diversity of players in constructive dialogue to envision and build shared futures.
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