Soft power e a nova diplomacia pública dos atores não-estatais: o caso da democracia real ya!

Abstract

The present research expatiates on the changes in International Public Law which have ousted the State of its role as the only actor in the International scenario and which allowed the participation of non-state actors in fields that have been traditionally designed for State practice, such as Diplomacy. Subsequently, the study describes the differences between the traditional model of diplomacy practice and the New Public Diplomacy model, which keeps affinity with non-state actors practice, later highlighting how the tools of the New Diplomacy model, specially soft power, contribute to the creation and dissemination of the ideals from the Democracia Real Ya! plataform, to its actions and to its achieved goals. The research, produced with the consultation to books and other academic productions in addition to videos and news on the Web, confirms the possibility of non-state actors, notedly Democracia Real Ya!, of acting as real diplomatic agents, making use of soft power and the other tools of New Public Diplomacy, while it attests the relevance of the results of its actions to the modification of the international scenario, a vision which departs from the realist conception in which the diplomatic system and Public International Law are still centered.