Science and Diplomacy: Negotiating Essential Alliances

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Part I Perception and misperception in science diplomacy

Chapter 1 - Introduction - Book organisation

Chapter 2 - Adaptive decision-making process in crisis situations

Part II - Science and Diplomacy: Negotiating a Joint Engagement

Chapter 3 - Science Diplomacy

1. Introduction

2. Defining Science Diplomacy

3. Science Diplomacy: History and achievements

4. Science Diplomacy as Soft Power Exercise

5. Multilateral Science Diplomacy in Action

6. Cooperative Advisory Mechanisms

Chapter 4 - Science Diplomacy and the EU

1. Science Diplomacy and the EU: A Brief History

2. Scientific Advise in the EU Institutions

3. Responsible Research & Innovation

4. The EU’s Strategy under Commissioner Moedas.

5. Cutting-Edge Year: An Insight on the EU’s Actions

Chapter 5 - Evidence-Informed Policymaking 1. Introduction 2. Brief History of Evidence-Based Policymaking 3. Evidence-informed policymaking in the European Union 4. The Relation between the Scientist and the Diplomat: Recommendations 5. Evidence-informed Policymaking in Action 6. Standardization vs. Experience-Based Approach 7. Evidence-informed policymaking: Leading from the shadows

Chapter 6 - Climate Change and Extreme Hazards 1. Introduction 2. Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Practice 3. Climate Change and Hydrometeorological Extreme Hazards

4. Negotiating Global Agreements with Incomplete Evidence-Informed

5. Climate Change: Citizens’ Resilience and Well-Being

Chapter 7 - Evidence-informed policymaking: The Way Forward

Concluding remarks to Part II

Part III - Biosecurity and Environmental Disaster: Adaptive decision-making in time of uncertainty

Chapter 8 - A major challenge to the uncertainty of modern times

1. Introduction

2. Crisis management

3. Knowing how to give a feedback

4. Risk management

5. Bioterrorism after September 11^th, 2001

6. Potential global economic impact of agricultural bioterrorism

7. Environmental Disaster: A major challenge to Biosafety

8. Hyogo Framework for Action

9. Biosafety and resilience processes

Chapter 9 - Crisis Management and Risk Assessment in the EU: A General Outline

1. Introduction

2. Main operational mechanisms in the EU institutional framework

3. The European Agenda on Security

4. Risk assessment system in the EU

5. A brief history of the EU’s comprehensive approach

6. The EU’s Green Paper on Bio-preparedness

7. Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Task Force

Chapter 10 - International Cooperation

1. Introduction

2. European and International Projects on Risk Assessment and Crisis Management

3. Stakeholders’ trai

Mauro Galluccio Ph.D. is a political scientist, psychologist, and cognitive behavioural therapist in clinical practice. He completed his Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University, where he was also a Visiting Scholar for two full years, at SAIS (School of Advanced International Studies) in Washington D.C. Dr Galluccio is the president of EANAM (European Association for Negotiation and Mediation) based in Brussels. He is advisor to the Joint Research Center (JRC) on evidence-informed for policymaking and seasoned expert evaluator, ethics expert and peer reviewer to the ERC (European research Council) and REA (Research Executive Agency) for founding projects and programs of the European Union. Dr Galluccio has worked for many years within the European Institutions as political analyst and adviser. He has been a public external speaker and professorial lecturer for more than 20 years to the European Commission of the EU (DG COMM - EC Presidency), in charge of the EU Institutions and policymaking. He has been adviser to the UNDP (United Nations Development Program) on mentoring programme for trainers. He is the editor and author of the Handbook of International Negotiation: Interpersonal, Intercultural, and Diplomatic Perspectives, 2015, Springer, New York. He is co-author of Psychological processes in international negotiations: theoretical and practical perspectives (with F. Aquilar, Springer, New York, 2008) and co-editor of Psychological and Political Strategies for Peace Negotiation. A Cognitive Approach (with F. Aquilar, Springer, New York, 2011).