Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics - Translations, Spaces and Alternatives

This volume offers an inter-disciplinary and critical analysis of the role of culture in diplomatic practice, featuring leading international scholars.

List of contents

Introduction: Reconceptualising Diplomatic Cultures, Jason Dittmer & Fiona McConnell Part I: Translating Diplomatic Culture 1. Everyday Diplomacy: Mission, Spectacle and the Remaking of Diplomatic Culture, Costas M. Constantinou 2. Transnational Diplomacy in Europe: What is Transcended and How?, Merje Kuus 3. Performing 'Freedom': The Bandung Conference as Symbolic Post-Colonial Diplomacy, Naoko Shimazu Part II: Spaces of Diplomatic Culture 4. Sited Diplomacy, Iver Neumann 5. The Traditional Diplomatic Network and its Adaptation to European Integration and New Media, Herman van der Wusten & Virginie Mamadouh 6. Two Balkan Writer-Diplomats: Reimagining International Space in the Eastern Mediterranean, John Watkins Part III: Alternative Cultures of Diplomacy 7. Para-diplomacy of Cities and Regions: Transnational Relations between Sub-State Political Entities, Virginie Mamadouh & Herman van der Wusten 8. Not Seeing Like a State: Inuit Diplomacies Meet State Sovereignty, Jessica Shadian 9. (Para)Diplomatic Cultures: Old and New, Noé Cornago

About the author

Jason Dittmer is Reader in Human Geography at University College London. He is author/editor of Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity (2010), Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions (2010), Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero (2013) and Geopolitics: An Introductory Reader (Routledge, 2014).
Fiona McConnell is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Geography at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. She is author of Rehearsing the State: The Political Practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile (forthcoming) and co-editor of Geographies of Peace (2014, with Nick Megoran, Philippa Williams).

Summary

This volume offers an inter-disciplinary and critical analysis of the role of culture in diplomatic practice, featuring leading international scholars.

Product details

• Authors: Jason (University College London Dittmer
• Assisted by: Jason Dittmer (Editor), Jason (University College London Dittmer (Editor), Dittmer Jason (Editor), Fiona Mcconnell (Editor), Fiona (St Catherine's College McConnell (Editor), McConnell Fiona (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138096486
• ISBN: 978-1-138-09648-6
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Routledge New Diplomacy Studies; Routledge New Diplomacy Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Communication Studies, Diplomacy, Social and cultural anthropology, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution