TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY EMPLOYED: NEW DIPLOMACY FOR NEW ERA? ARCHITECTURE OF TRANSITIONAL STRATEGY

Sahadžić Maja (Viša asistentica, International University of Sarajevo), maja.sahadzic@gmail.com

The paper investigates recondite and some explored transformational diplomacy concept that was presented and initiated by the United States of America. Emergence of this concept is fairly associated to international legal and geopolitical changes, and by which USA endeavors to affect modern international system transformation on the basis of cooperation. There has been usual methodology of legal and social science used, on the strength of which results and conclusions stand upon, and have regard to conditions for emergence, essence and elements of transformational diplomacy that are exhaustively analyzed. Further on, transformational is juxtaposed to traditional diplomacy. Finally, discouragements in transformational diplomacy employing and eventual future enforcement possibilities have been researched.

Keywords: transformational diplomacy, transformational development, global repositioning, democratization, international relations, foreign policy of the USA