Trade and environmental diplomacy: What are the key difference between security, trade, and environmental diplomacy?

The process of multilateralism is a common feature in negotiations on trade, security, and environmental issues. The process of these negotiations allow states to come together in a framework that allows all states to be to negotiate with one another on such matters, and that international institutions such as the UN provides the framework for all states to engage with one another, although it has come to apparent that there does seem to be tendency on how these negotiations are carried out. The process of security negotiations is one of two dimensions when it comes to states. States maintain a view that all negotiations must be in the view of the public, all negotiations are to be put on the public, and however in reality it’s not the case. Secrecy has always been and will continue to play a role on states security, that in the eyes of the government there are certain aspects of negotiations should not be published, it would contradict the process of security in that state. From government’s points of view, to release minutes or evidence of the meetings would be a security risk, as it would give others the whole discussions that were discussed. Trade negotiations is more open to security negotiations, states are now negotiating in so many ways, in summit meeting, or while having lunch with one another. Trade is a common goal for states, they are all competing with one another, and that compared to security negotiation, trade negotiations have come changes as the world evolved. In terms of environmental negotiations, the rise of non state actors have changed the way states conduct their dialogue, the ability for non- governmental organizations to have major impact in environmental negotiations was evident in the Kyoto agreement. Governments have the ability to take these non state actors to negotiations, showing the true importance of non –state actors ability to work with governments.