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THE JOB OF THE POSTNATIONAL DIPLOMACY
Zagreb
ORGANIZER
GEOECONOMIC FORUM
THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE OF RECOMMENDATION
H.E. Stjepan Mesić, President of the Republic
of Croatia
FOCUS
 The
aim of this Conference is spreading the knowledge about how consequences
of economic globalization influence on the running state foreign
policy. Although connecting causes with consequences is always a
difficult job, the Conference wants to show, through the example
of foreign policy of France, that globalization diverts foreign
affairs towards establishing the postnational diplomacy which is
primarily realized through economic diplomacy
Domingue  ,
the leading world known foreign policy expert, will hold a lecture
about "How economic globalization shapes foreign policy
of France".
The conference also wants to stress through
the discussion of participants why the business community of Croatia
should have a stronger influence on foreign policy than any other
factor of Croatian foreign policy and it also advocates the strengthening
of "pro trade" policy towards the other countries in the
region instead of old Balkan geopolitics.
WHY THIS CONFERENCE?
The process of changes caused by the influence of
economic globalization on state foreign policy means a new approach
to "economic diplomacy" which includes not only one department
as it has been by now, but overall diplomatic actions of staff at
all levels and up to the ambassador. The aim of this new approach
is to show that a state can improve the competitive power of its
economy through postnational-led foreign policy .
The existing economic diplomacy of Croatia is limited by the fact
that it was designed first and foremost for functioning within the
centralized state system and by its structure it is subjected to
the political and symbolic function of diplomacy as well as to the
function of legal representation. In the age of globalization diplomacy
has to be in function of economy, with the sense of world as a whole,
no matter which part of the world it comes from.
There is no such thing as a completely new fresh start, not in human
life nor in international relations, so it is necessary to reform
the existing economic diplomacy in such a way to become the dominant
dimension of foreign policy of a country and an element of various
diplomatic activities.
Postnational diplomacy operates in favour of economic interest of
a country at all levels, even then when it works as a humanitarian
activity and isn't called an economic diplomacy. All kinds of diplomacies,
whatever they are called, have to find out a prospective regions
for trade and industry which is the best way for economic breakout
of Croatia.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For the public, academic and business circles, students,
civil associations, government administration and media.
In the media Croatian foreign policy in the region is mainly presented
from the geopolitical point of view, and entering the EU is presented
as the fear of losing the national sovereignty. In this way the
public does not get the real picture of the changes which were caused
by the economic globalization in all the countries, and not only
in Croatia. The Conference enables the citizens to understand easier
the features of the age they live in and the necessity for adjusting
to the economic globalisation which doesn't have to be bad.
THE ORGANIZER
Every conference of GEOFO considers important to
encourage the kind of Croatian economic culture which gives the
advantage to the social solidarity in relation to unlimited freedom
of profit.
GEOFO advocates for the domination of economic function in foreign
policy of the country, because it is the main characteristics of
diplomacy in the age of economic globalization, but it should not
be harmful to the social function of the state.
The Conference was cancelled because of the illness of keynote speaker Professor Dominique Moisi. GEFO and Dominique Moisi express deep apologies to all participants, co-workers and sponsors of the Conference.
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