Trade and Environmental Diplomacy

Diplomacy is a tool of political art which can be used universally in any area of politics whether one talks about trade, security or environmental diplomacy. Before there will be a distinction made between these three I will give a brief idea of each of them.
Firstly, security diplomacy comes. As Riordan explains international security agenda is focusing on a wide range of issues, nowadays including even new ones which happened to be important only lately. Here issues such as balance of power, regional conflicts, civil wars and weapons proliferation plus international terrorism that appeared on the agenda only a few years ago. Furthermore there is organized crime, epidemic illnesses, environment, mass migration and international financial stability that analysts put all together in the sector.
All these issues are apparently important to the civil society thus to negotiate about them seems to be very delicate. Diplomats who are normally present might sometimes be counterproductive as they do not have the appropriate knowledge and expertise therefore lack credibility to participate on the decision making. It is non-governmental actors through who the engagement with a foreign civil society can be best done not only because they have the right knowledge but also thanks to the network of NGOs that can use to build relationships and better understand the situation in the particular place.
Trade diplomacy deals with completely different issues. Barston argues that trade and foreign diplomacy go hand in hand with each other but the fact is that is can be practiced separately. The setting of the international trade diplomacy is defined through the number of multilateral organizations and institutions, large political groupings and special interest-based groups. Probably the best known are GATT, WTO or ILO. The organizations whose main aim is trade diplomacy exist on the regional level too like for example the EU or ASEAN.
Lastly, environmental diplomacy seeks to stop the destruction of the nature and the Earth and reach sustainable development. The interactions and procedures does not form a system but again agreements are reached through negotiations at different forums and conferences. The actors involved are not only sovereign states but agencies, organizations, NGOs and even individuals. Even though the agreements are reached the problems comes when ratifying and implementing in the domestic policies of the states which can be explained by naming different obstacles from the lack of interest for change to the notion of the state sovereignty.
This overview helps us to see the purposes and practices o different types of diplomacy. It shows us that the main differences are in the subject of negotiations as different areas are concerned, moreover in setting of the negotiations and after them implications of the agreements, in the affectivity, the actors involved, the obstacles that stand against reaching the aim and I would say that also in the interest and enthusiasm with which certain countries are willing to negotiate and compromise their own agendas.