Transparencia y diplomacia: nuevas demandas sociales y rutinas profesionales

Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez; José María Herranz de la Casa; Luis Mauricio Calvo Rubio

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2017-1195

Authors

Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez Castilla La Mancha University http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9129-2907
José María Herranz de la Casa Castilla La Mancha University http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3667-2664
Luis Mauricio Calvo Rubio Castilla La Mancha University http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4707-5259

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2017-1195

Keywords:

diplomacy, transparency, globalization, international communication, citizenship

Abstract

The effects of transparency in diplomacy are analyzed. Methodology. Three levels of information management in professional diplomacy are considered, and thereafter how the demand of transparency affects its development and achievement. A descriptive analysis assesses the level of transparency based on the Open Government Partnership (OGP) principles. The article features the tensions delivered to diplomatic activity and shows evidences of wide range of international actors. Results and conclusions. The results indicate no single model can be validated to assess transparency in diplomatic professional activity because it is linked to values, uses and political culture of each actor involved. Transparency is not only a legal paradigm, but a culture that allows accountability adapted to the characteristics of global affairs.

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Author Biographies

Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez, Castilla La Mancha University

Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez is full professor of Journalism in Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. He has published more than 30 academic works about innovation, diplomacy and international political communication. The last of which is entitled “Spanish diplomacy before the digital challenge”, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Spain).

He is the main researcher of the project called "Public communication, transparency, accountability and participation in local governments", acronym GlobalCOM (CSO2013-46997-R, Challenges 2013). He has been main researcher in Spain for the project called European Media Policies Revisited: Valuing & Reclaiming Free and Independent Media in Contemporary Democratic Systems (acronym: MEDIADEM). Said project had a funding of 2.65 Million Euros within the Seventh Framework Programme (agreement FP7-SSH-2009-A nº 244365). The project lasted three years (April 2010 to March 2013).

José María Herranz de la Casa , Castilla La Mancha University

Doctor in Journalism by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has worked as journalist in the sports newspaper MARCA and has been professor of Universidad Católica de Ávila (UCAV) and the Faculty of Human Sciences and of Information of Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes (Valladolid). In both universities, he has also been director of the Cabinet of Communication and Marketing, and in the UEMC, besides postgraduate studies director.

Currently he is professor of Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in the Faculty of Journalism of Cuenca, teaching the subjects Sports Journalism, Specialized Journalism and Institutional and Corporate Communication. Besides, he is director of the digital platform El Observador de Castilla-La Mancha of the Faculty of Journalism. They have different studies and articles published regarding the research lines developed: communication and transparency in social organizations and NGOs - theme of his doctoral dissertation-; corporate and organizational communication; and social responsibility. And currently he is part of a research project, funded by the Spanish government, that analyses the informative handling of energetic policies in Spain, reception and participation processes of social organizations.

Luis Mauricio Calvo Rubio, Castilla La Mancha University

Graduate in Journalism by Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA) and University Master on Communication, Culture, Society and Politics by Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). For more than two decades, he has developed his professional career as journalist and responsible for media in the field of written press, radio and television.

In the last years, his professional and academic labour has focused in the possibilities for communication in the new digital context and, quite specially, in transmedia journalism. Currently, he combines doctorate studies with his professional career linked to corporate communication.

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