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Understanding international diplomacy : theory, practice and ethics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bjola, Corneliu (Author), Kornprobst, Markus (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
International cooperation.
International relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction
  • 1.Why and how to study diplomacy
  • Why study diplomacy?
  • Does diplomacy (still) matter?
  • Actors
  • Issue areas
  • Methods
  • How to define diplomacy
  • Broadening horizons for studying diplomacy
  • Overview
  • pt. II Tracing diplomacy
  • 2.Historical evolution
  • Introduction
  • Ancient diplomacy
  • Representation procedures
  • Communication methods
  • Conflict management
  • Medieval diplomacy
  • Representation procedures
  • Communication methods
  • Conflict management
  • Modern diplomacy
  • Representation procedures
  • Communication methods
  • Conflict management
  • Summary
  • Study questions
  • Recommended further reading
  • 3.Woodrow Wilson and the new diplomacy after World War I
  • Introduction
  • Open covenants of peace: accountable diplomacy
  • The case for accountability
  • Parliamentary oversight
  • Self-determination: equality and democracy
  • The case for self-determination
  • Legal formulations
  • Note continued: Conference diplomacy
  • Collective security: the power of law and deliberation
  • The case for collective security
  • Diplomatic challenges
  • Summary
  • Study questions
  • Recommended further reading
  • 4.Multiplicities of global diplomacy
  • Introduction
  • War and peace
  • Economics
  • Development
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Migration
  • Summary
  • Study questions
  • Recommended further reading
  • pt. III Mapping the diplomatic field
  • 5.Contexts of global diplomacy
  • Introduction
  • The making of the Vienna Convention
  • Four major provisions
  • Updating the Vienna Convention?
  • Deeper backgrounds
  • Three schools of thought on deeper backgrounds
  • Illustrations of deeper backgrounds
  • Summary
  • Study questions
  • Recommended further reading
  • 6.Tasks of global diplomacy
  • Introduction
  • Messaging
  • Negotiation
  • Mediation
  • Talk
  • Summary
  • Study questions
  • Recommended further reading
  • pt. IV Explaining diplomacy
  • Note continued: 7.The making of decisions
  • Introduction
  • Rational choice
  • Cuba, 1962
  • Psychological approaches
  • Iraq, 2003
  • Logic of appropriateness
  • Germany, diplomacy and intervention, 1949
  • Logic of argumentation
  • Soviet Union, 1990
  • Logic of practice
  • France and Africa, 1960s
  • Summary
  • Study questions
  • Recommended further reading
  • 8.The making of relations
  • Introduction
  • Balancing: from outlaw to ally (and vice versa)
  • Relations between North Korea and the United States, 1993
  • 2016
  • Interests: cooperative relations beyond alliance
  • EU foreign policy, 1957
  • 2016
  • Identities: from enmity to friendship and beyond
  • From enmity to friendship to enmity: Eritrea and Ethiopia
  • Summary
  • Study questions
  • Recommended further reading
  • 9.The making of the world
  • Introduction
  • Diplomats as makers of geopolitical architectures
  • Geopolitical architectures
  • Case study: the Ukraine crisis
  • Note continued: Diplomats as makers of anarchic cultures
  • Case study: the `bad apple' diplomacy of the Third Reich
  • Diplomats as makers of international deontologies
  • Case study: the deontology of climate change diplomacy
  • Summary
  • Study questions
  • Recommended further reading
  • pt. V Discussing normative approaches
  • 10.Re-malting the diplomat
  • Introduction
  • Diplomatic representation
  • The raison de systeme
  • Paradiplomacy
  • Diplomacy and power
  • Diplomatic recruitment and training
  • Digital diplomacy
  • Summary
  • Study questions
  • Recommended further reading
  • 11.Re-making domestic institutions
  • Introduction
  • Diplomacy and peacebuilding
  • The fundamental question: to intervene or not to intervene?
  • What ought to be the end of peacebuilding?
  • What ought to be the means to this end?
  • Summary
  • Study questions
  • Recommended further reading
  • 12.The peaceful re-making of the world
  • Introduction
  • Preventive diplomacy
  • Note continued: The UN context
  • Regional preventive diplomacy
  • International criminal justice
  • The International Criminal Court
  • Hybrid courts
  • Summary
  • Study questions
  • Recommended further reading
  • pt. VI Conclusion
  • 13.Quo Vadis diplomacy?
  • Studying diplomacy as communication
  • Adding to our understanding
  • Gender and diplomacy
  • Anti-diplomacy
  • A glimpse into the future: the new diplomacies
  • City diplomacy
  • Disaster diplomacy.