Water diplomacy in a changing world : adapting to new paradigm shifts, and the need for new innovative tools

Abstract

Med Agenda intends, in this article, to address the state of the world’s water in the 21st Century in its complexities, in relation to diplomacy and in its theories and practices. Diplomacy is a science and an art, in a wider sense, of managing and conducting relations among nations. The main assumption here, is that significant paradigmatic changes occurred in the second half of the last century in a variety of disciplines: the theory of relativity, Darwin’s theory, quantum mechanics, organic chemistry, computers, informatics, logic, and post modernism. Influenced by all these, is water diplomacy starting to be studied as a multi-disciplinary and meta-disciplinary science, and within the framework of complexity, as a new discipline?