National interests --- Lord and Turekian consider science diplomacy mainly as a tool for promoting national interests in the field of public diplomacy. They mention the low global public opinion regarding US after Iraq war and point science diplomacy as a mean to recover this opinion which is neccesary for achieving national interests. However, despite this is a pioneer thought about science diplomacy, we now can see it is insufficient since science diplomacy is not only a secondary tool for fostering public diplomacy. Nevertheless, we can find the seeds of the scientific vision of diplomacy in the same article when they talk about scientific education and critical thinking skills for succesful participatory governance

Source author: Carlos Arturo Garcia Bonilla carlos.garcia@cancilleria.gov.co