THE FUTURE OF DIPLOMACY

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Eva Nowotny in conversation with Teresa Indjein, Martin Sajdik and Friedrich Stift

THE FUTURE OF DIPLOMACY

Immediately after taking office, President Joe Biden announced ‚America is back, diplomacy is back‘. After the last four years, which have been characterised by a return to the power politics of the past, this was a welcome announcement. Nevertheless, the question remains - is diplomacy really back? Will it be able to hold its own in an international climate characterised by confrontation rather than understanding and negotiation? How serious is the return to multilateralism, which is unthinkable without diplomacy? What are the instruments that diplomacy can utilise in the 21st century under changed global conditions? We want to discuss these and similar questions in a series of discussion events, which we will begin on 20 September at 7 pm. On the panel with Eva Nowotny, Teresa Indjein, Head of the Cultural Section of the MFA, Martin Sajdik, most recently Special Representative of the OSCE in Ukraine, and Friedrich Stift, most recently Austrian Ambassador in Beijing and now Director of ADA, will open this series of discussions.“

Teresa Indjein, Ambassador and Head of International Cultural Affairs BMEIA
Martin Sajdik, Austrian diplomat and most recently OSCE Special Representative in Ukraine
Friedrich Stift, Director Austria Development Agency and most recently Austrian Ambassador in Beijing
Eva Nowotny, Member of the Board of the Bruno Kreisky Forum, retired diplomat, Chairwoman of the University Council of the University of Vienna