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The Pentagon’s pause in a long-running U.S.-Canada defense forum signals how alliance management, Arctic planning, and political trust can become strategic leverage. #usa #geopolitics #unitedstates #northamerica

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"Army Chief Departs for Kuwait on Crucial 3-Day Visit – What’s on the Agenda?"

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"Army Chief Departs for Kuwait on Crucial 3-Day Visit – What’s on the Agenda?"

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Introduction to Defense Diplomacy

The concept of defense diplomacy has popularly blossomed to respond the global politics at which become more complex in the Post-Cold War era though the activities were not particularly new. This concept is defined by Matsuda Yasuhiro on his essay titled An Essay on China’s Military Diplomatic: Examination of Intentions in Foreign Strategy as “all diplomatic activities relating to national security and military diplomatic activities”. Meanwhile, Jim Rolfe interpreted Defense Diplomacy as “a range of non-warlike activities undertaken by the armed force of any country, intended to develop in the international community a positive attitude toward and trust in the country undertaking the activities”. It means, Defense Diplomacy is like understanding the concept of diplomacy in common which is to defend national interests and national security in peace ways, yet further focusing it on defense matters, such as joint training with the militaries of foreign countries, the appointments of defense attaché, cooperative arrangement (both bilaterally and multilaterally), ship visits, and provision of material equipment or other material aid. Those are commonly held in order to dispel hostility, build and maintain trust and assist in the development of the democratically accountable armed forces (thereby making a significant contribution to conflict prevention and resolution).

In its blossom, the concept of defense diplomacy varied from three characteristics as follow: (1) defense diplomacy as the state instrument for national interest both bilaterally and multilaterally; (2) traditional defense diplomacy; (3) post traditional defense diplomacy, correlated with the changing of landscape in international politics order.

In traditional defense diplomacy, a concept which is popular before the end of the cold war, the activities of states are tend to seek friends or ally to get balance of power. The great power used defense diplomacy to balance or deter its opponent influence toward lesser state by providing weapon aids, infrastructures, and various policies related to defense aimed to manage the wide-spread of influence and assisting the friendly regime to press its opponent.

While traditional defense diplomacy is mostly ranging from rigid relationship between NATO and WARSAW blocs as of the Cold War era, post defense diplomacy is more dynamic by coming efforts from states to unlock cooperation even with their ex-opponent varied from defense matters only to wider security discourse –since security is conceptually securitized–. Andi Widjajanto, Defense expert, said that this concept aims at achieving and seeking the counter balance amidst the need for stability, defense build up, and more autonomous defense industry. The activities of such this diplomacy hence include developing CBM (Confidence Building Measures), defense diplomacy for good governance and defense reforms, and defense diplomacy for international peace development (such as peacekeeping operations, disarmament and arms control). Thus, he said a successful achievement of these tasks will depend on the capacity of state in posing diplomacy toward others whether bilaterally, regionally, or globally.

At bilateral level, many countries have cooperative activities at varying level ranging from the exchange attaché, through the high level dialogues to capacity building, combine exercising and arms transfers. At regional level, defense and security cooperation manifested in wide variety of forums such as ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting (ADMM) or ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). And at global level, it varied from state contribution in peacekeeping operation to various security and defense dialogue within UN. Another kind of defense diplomacy also includes non-official dialogue –security and defense dialogue that was held with academics, think tank or civil society– such as Shangri La and Asia Pacific Roundtable.

Since diplomacy is not a single actor game and defense diplomacy means the positive interaction for each States to get more essential and beneficial than military force; hard power; or another practice of realpolitik, the States must meet certain understanding or trust –amidst differ of interests– if not the effort will be less successful and security dilemma remain exist.

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