HUMANITARIAN DIPLOMACY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR AND ITS ACTORS
Furkan TERZI [a] [b] (ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8999-1987)
Uğur Yasin ASAL [b] (ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1567-9186)
Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice [Annals of the University of Bucharest. Political Science series]
Vol. XXVI (2024), Online first
https://doi.org/10.54885/AUB-SP-EUQM6824
[b] Istanbul Ticaret University [Istanbul Commerce University], Türkiye
The escalations emerged in North Africa and some Middle Eastern countries in 2011 and called the "Arab Spring", and 11 years later, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, once again revealed the concept of humanitarian diplomacy. The conflicts experienced resulted in human migration, displacement within the country, and eventually the emergence of a large population called the "vulnerable groups" consisting of women and children. Considering the conditions of the First and Second World Wars and the Cold War period that started after, humanitarian diplomacy has many more actors today. Governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations operating in the international arena, the private sector, and individuals can be considered actors involved in humanitarian diplomacy. Thus, failure to implement or not successfully humanitarian diplomacy can cause many negative developments, especially in the economy, society, and security, in much wider geographies apart from conflict environments. In this context, for humanitarian diplomacy to be successfully implemented and yield results, actors in this field need to follow harmonious process management and decision-makers need to transform their policies in favor of vulnerable groups.
Keywords: Diplomacy, Humanitarian Diplomacy, Digital Diplomacy, Foreign Policy
Furkan TERZI is currently a PhD Candidate at Istanbul Ticaret University. He has worked in the humanitarian sector for more than 7 years in different international non-governmental organizations. Contact: furkan.terzi@yahoo.com
Uğur Yasin ASAL is the Head of the Political Science and International Relations Department at Istanbul Ticaret University. Contact: uyasal@ticaret.edu.tr
TERZI, Furkan & Uğur Yasin ASAL. 2024. Humanitarian Diplomacy: An Analysis of the Russia-Ukraine War and Its Actors. Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice [Annals of the University of Bucharest. Political Science series] XXVI: Online first. https://doi.org/10.54885/AUB-SP-EUQM6824
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