Wikileaks: impact on international relations and diplomacy & (potential) factors of greater transparency by Sidney Leclercq

1. < WIKILEAKS >
impact on international relations and diplomacy
& (potential) factors of greater transparency
sidney leclercq

2. < WIKILEAKS: A BREAKTRHOUGH ? >
not a new phenomena
the “whistleblowers“
leaks as a foreign
policy tool

3. < WIKILEAKS: AN ACTOR OF IR >
more than a source /
technical intermediary
by ✦ 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

4. < WHAT NOW WITH
TRANSPARENCY ? >
decrease increase
✦ closing up of ✦ political reactions /
information for all accountability to
✦ systematic
issues revealed
✦ pratice straightening
classification
✦ transparency as
✦ terrorist assimilation
electoral argument
✦ public / parliament
scrutiny

5. < (POTENTIAL) FACTORS OF
TRANSPARENCY >
if ✦ dealing with the quantity versus / and
quality of information
✦
✦
✦
✦
value / impact assessment
dissemination strategy
focusing on content
avoiding “reality-tv-like“ diplomatic leaks

6. < (POTENTIAL) FACTORS OF
TRANSPARENCY >
if citizen’s rights organizations / public
✦
opinion support
✦ larger appropriation of the “transparency
and accountability“ message

7. < CONCLUSION ? >

8. < CONCLUSION ? >
source:
foreignpolicy.com
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