My Experience of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy as a Core Tool in Modern Government … And How it may be Best Taught at Postgraduate Level…

• Introduction

• Research Experience

• Practical Experience

• Teaching Issues

• Conclusion

© Georg Wiessala, 2014

Research Diplomacy, Identity and Foreign Policy

• Asia: Re-Imagining National Identities by recourse to

past Diplomacy (Siam/ Ayutthaya Thailand): ‘Hegemonic

Discourse’ (e.g.: Thongchai Wichinakul, 1994).

• Europe/ EU: Construction of External Identity as ‘Soft

Power’, Human Rights promoter or Global Actor sui generis,

based on normative/ diplomatic tools. Use of Cultural

Diplomacy to Construct/ Disseminate Foreign Policy.

Practical Experience

Training of Leaders in Government and Higher Education

EIPA Seminars (Brussels)

Chatham House Rules

Testing Ground for EU Foreign Policy Initiatives

Balanced Mobility (ASEMME 4)

Leaders of Tomorrow

http://www.eipa.nl/

http://www.aseminfoboard.org/

Contested Cultural Diplomacy

Beijing or Washington Consensus?

Cultural ‘Presence’ and Diplomacy

The Shortwave Radio Coup (e.g. Africa)

Teaching Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at MA Level

• Syllabus Issues (MA 2015 Modules +)

• Leadership Skills

• Higher-Order Thinking Skills

• Problem-Based Learning (PBL)

• Metacognition/ Reflection (‘Thinking About Thinking’)

• Cognitive Visualization

• Interactivity

• Soft Skills

• Blended Learning

VISION &

KEY CONCEPTS

Professional Learning Communities

(Staff-Student Integration)

Leaders of Today and Tomorrow

Thinking Skills and Habits of Mind

THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS FROM:

International Relations Theory (IRT, e.g.: Realism, Liberalism and

(especially) Social Constructivism)

EU Integration Theory (IRT)

Non-Western IRT

Theories of Leadership (e.g.: Tony Bush, Alma Harris)

Educational Theory (e.g.: Bloom’s Cognitive Domains; Gardner:

Multiple Intelligences; Kolb’s Learning Cycles; Honey and

Mumford’s Learning Styles; Bender’s Transactional Distance ...

Leadership

SkillsDistributed Leadership

Transactional Leaders

Transformational

Leaders

Soft Skills

Negotiation

Persuasion

Assertiveness

Active Listening

Higher-Order

Thinking Skills(H.O.T.S.)

Research Student

Skills-Mapping Cognitive

Visualization

Visual Facilitation

Metaphors & Models

Thinking Maps

Decision-Rooms

Audio-Visual

Problem-Based

Learning (PBL)

Case Study

Simulation Games

Scenario

Interactivity

Assertive Questioning

Student-Centered

Learning

Facilitation

Student Demonstration

Blended Learning

as Pedagogy

Social Media

Web-For a (‘Moodle’)

Online Discussion Fora

Online Team Rooms

Metacognition &

Self-Reflection

Thinking Tools

Habits of Mind (Thinking

about Thinking)

Reflexive Writing

Georg Wiessala

2 December 2014

VISION &

KEY CONCEPTS

Professional Learning Communities

(Staff-Student Integration)

Leaders of Today and Tomorrow

Thinking Skills and Habits of Mind

THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS FROM:

International Relations Theory (IRT, e.g.: Realism, Liberalism and

(especially) Social Constructivism)

EU Integration Theory (IRT)

Non-Western IRT

Theories of Leadership (e.g.: Tony Bush, Alma Harris)

Educational Theory (e.g.: Bloom’s Cognitive Domains; Gardner:

Multiple Intelligences; Kolb’s Learning Cycles; Honey and

Mumford’s Learning Styles; Bender’s Transactional Distance ...

Leadership

SkillsDistributed Leadership

Transactional Leaders

Transformational

Leaders

Soft Skills

Negotiation

Persuasion

Assertiveness

Active Listening

Higher-Order

Thinking Skills(H.O.T.S.)

Research Student

Skills-Mapping Cognitive

Visualization

Visual Facilitation

Metaphors & Models

Thinking Maps

Decision-Rooms

Audio-Visual

Problem-Based

Learning (PBL)

Case Study

Simulation Games

Scenario

Interactivity

Assertive Questioning

Student-Centered

Learning

Facilitation

Student Demonstration

Blended Learning

as Pedagogy

Social Media

Web-For a (‘Moodle’)

Online Discussion Fora

Online Team Rooms

Metacognition &

Self-Reflection

Thinking Tools

Habits of Mind (Thinking

about Thinking)

Reflexive Writing

Georg Wiessala

2 December 2014

Teaching Example:

Rangaku

Shíba Kōkan (1738-1818)

(司馬 江漢?, 1747 – November 19, 1818), born Andō Kichirō (安藤吉次郎) or Katsusaburō（勝三郎）

A Meeting of Japan, China and the West http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb7489p4cx/