Diplomatic Material - Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy

Applying new materialism to international relations, Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things shape the decisions and actions of diplomats and policymakers.

List of contents

Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Geopolitical Assemblages and Everyday Diplomacy  1
1. Materializing Diplomacy in the Nineteenth-Century Foreign Office  25
2. UKUSA Signals Intelligence Cooperation  49
3. Interoperability and Standardization in NATO  73
4. Assembling a Common Foreign and Security Policy  99
Conclusion  123
Notes  141
Bibliography  161
Index  171

About the author

Jason Dittmer is Professor of Political Geography at University College London and the author of Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics and coeditor of Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics: Translations, Spaces, and Alternatives.

Summary

Applying new materialism to international relations, Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things shape the decisions and actions of diplomats and policymakers.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Dittmer
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780822368823
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6882-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Humangeographie