wikileaks: impact on international relations and diplomacy
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< WIKILEAKS >impact on international relations and diplomacy
& (potential) factors of greater transparency
sidney leclercq
< WIKILEAKS: A BREAKTRHOUGH ? >
not a new phenomena the “whistleblowers“
leaks as a foreign policy tool
< WIKILEAKS: AN ACTOR OF IR >
✦ its access, selection, orientation and diffusion choice of large amounts of information
✦ its encryption skills and technical capacity
✦ the unease it generates in governments
✦ ideological aspiration
more than a source / technical intermediary
by
< WHAT NOW WITH TRANSPARENCY ? >
decrease
✦ closing up of information for all
✦ systematic classification
✦ terrorist assimilation
increase
✦ political reactions / accountability to issues revealed
✦ pratice straightening ✦ transparency as
electoral argument ✦ public / parliament
scrutiny
< (POTENTIAL) FACTORS OF TRANSPARENCY >
✦ dealing with the quantity versus / and quality of information✦ value / impact assessment ✦ dissemination strategy✦ focusing on content✦ avoiding “reality-tv-like“ diplomatic leaks
if
< (POTENTIAL) FACTORS OF TRANSPARENCY >
✦ citizen’s rights organizations / public opinion support
✦ larger appropriation of the “transparency and accountability“ messageif