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Book Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order

Download or read book Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order written by Jozef Bátora and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes ways how three fringe players of the modern diplomatic order - the Holy See, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and the EU – have been accommodated within that order, revealing that the modern diplomatic order is less state-centric than conventionally assumed and is instead better conceived of as a heteronomy.

Book The Pope  the Public  and International Relations

Download or read book The Pope the Public and International Relations written by Mariano P. Barbato and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume engages a long-standing religious power, the Holy See, to discuss the impact of the structural and postsecular transformations of international relations through the emergence of a global and digital public sphere. Despite the legal construction that enables the separation of the Holy See as a distinct legal entity, it is also an instrument for the papacy to represent externally and regulate internally the global and transnational Catholic Church. The Holy See is also the tool that enables the papacy to address a transnational or a global public beyond Catholic adherence – most prominently through journeys that are often at the same time state visits and pastoral journeys. Instead of understanding these hybrid roles as an irregular exemption, the contributions of the book argue that the Holy See should be seen as a certainly special but nevertheless quite normal actor of international and public diplomacy.

Book Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights

Download or read book Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights written by Leonard Francis Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

Book Diplomacy and Borderlands

Download or read book Diplomacy and Borderlands written by Katharina P. Coleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Africa’s internal and external relations by focusing on three core concepts: orders, diplomacy and borderlands. The contributors examine traditional and non-traditional diplomatic actors, and domestic, regional, continental, and global orders. They argue that African diplomats profoundly shape these orders by situating themselves within in-between-spaces of geographical and functional orders. It is in these borderlands that agency, despite all kinds of constraints, flourishes. Chapters in the book compare domestic orders to regional ones, and then continental African orders to global ones. They deal with a range of functional orders, including development, international trade, human rights, migration, nuclear arms control, peacekeeping, public administration, and territorial change. By focusing on these topics, the volume contributes to a better understanding of African international relations, sharpens analyses of ordering processes in world politics, and adds to our comprehension of how diplomacy shapes orders and vice versa. The studies collected here show a much more nuanced picture of African agency in African and international affairs and suggest that African diplomacy is far more extensive than is often assumed. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies, African politics and International Relations.

Book The SAGE Handbook of Diplomacy

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Diplomacy written by Costas M. Constantinou and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Diplomacy provides a major thematic overview of Diplomacy and its study that is theoretically and historically informed and in sync with the current and future needs of diplomatic practice . Original contributions from a brilliant team of global experts are organised into four thematic sections: Section One: Diplomatic Concepts & Theories Section Two: Diplomatic Institutions Section Three: Diplomatic Relations Section Four: Types of Diplomatic Engagement

Book Diplomatic tenses

    Book Details:
  • Author : Iver Neumann
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2020-12-08
  • ISBN : 1526148706
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Diplomatic tenses written by Iver Neumann and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an alternative and a complement to existing histories of diplomacy, this book discusses change in the form of ‘tipping points’, which it understands as the culmination of long-term trends. Part I discusses social evolution on the general level of institutions. It argues that in cases where a diplomatic institution’s tipping points are defined by the types of entities that make it up, the consular institution has evolved from concerning polities of independent traders to becoming ever more of a state concern. Part II challenges the existing literature’s treatment of diplomacy as an elite, textual affair. It lays the groundwork for studying visual diplomacy and observes that the increasingly marginal vision of diplomacy as a confrontation between good and evil survives in popular culture. The book concludes by identifying the future of diplomacy as a struggle between state-to-state based diplomacy and diplomacy as networked global governance.

Book Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics

Download or read book Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics written by Jason Dittmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an inter-disciplinary and critical analysis of the role of culture in diplomatic practice. If diplomacy is understood as the practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of distinct communities or causes, then questions of culture and the spaces of cultural exchange are at its core. But what of the culture of diplomacy itself? When and how did this culture emerge, and what alternative cultures of diplomacy run parallel to it, both historically and today? How do particular spaces and places inform and shape the articulation of diplomatic culture(s)? This volume addresses these questions by bringing together a collection of theoretically rich and empirically detailed contributions from leading scholars in history, international relations, geography, and literary theory. Chapters attend to cross-cutting issues of the translation of diplomatic cultures, the role of space in diplomatic exchange and the diversity of diplomatic cultures beyond the formal state system. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches the contributors discuss empirical cases ranging from indigenous diplomacies of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, to the European External Action Service, the 1955 Bandung Conference, the spatial imaginaries of mid twentieth-century Balkan writer diplomats, celebrity and missionary diplomacy, and paradiplomatic narratives of The Hague. The volume demonstrates that, when approached from multiple disciplinary perspectives and understood as expansive and plural, diplomatic cultures offer an important lens onto issues as diverse as global governance, sovereignty regimes and geographical imaginations. This book will be of much interest to students of public diplomacy, foreign policy, international organisations, media and communications studies, and IR in general.

Book Secret Diplomacy

Download or read book Secret Diplomacy written by Corneliu Bjola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates secret diplomacy with the aim of understanding its role in shaping foreign policy. Recent events, including covert intelligence gathering operations, accusations of spying, and the leaking of sensitive government documents, have demonstrated that secrecy endures as a crucial, yet overlooked, aspect of international diplomacy. The book brings together different research programmes and views on secret diplomacy and integrates them into a coherent analytical framework, thereby filling an important gap in the literature. The aim is to stimulate, generate and direct the further development of theoretical understandings of secret diplomacy by highlighting ‘gaps’ in existing bodies of knowledge. To this end, the volume is structured around three distinct themes: concepts, contexts and cases. The first section elaborates on the different meanings and manifestations of the concept; the second part examines basic contexts that underpin the practice of secret diplomacy; while the third section presents a series of empirical cases of particular relevance for contemporary diplomatic practice. While the fundamental conditions diplomacy seeks to overcome – alienation, estrangement and separation – are imbued with distrust and secrecy, this volume highlights that, if anything, secret diplomacy is a vital, if misunderstood and unfairly criticised, aspect of diplomacy. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy, intelligence studies, foreign policy and IR in general.

Book Transprofessional Diplomacy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Costas M. Constantinou
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2017-01-05
  • ISBN : 9004340726
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book Transprofessional Diplomacy written by Costas M. Constantinou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diplomacy is no longer restricted to a single vocation nor implemented exclusively through interaction amongst official representatives. The pluralization of diplomatic actors, the expanded diplomatic space and the internsified pace of global interconnections have transformed diplomacy into a transprofessional exercise.

Book Research Handbook on Law and Diplomacy

Download or read book Research Handbook on Law and Diplomacy written by Margaret E. McGuinness and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Research Handbook examines the dynamic and interdependent relationship between law and diplomacy in the contemporary international system. Through accounts of the actual practice of international law and diplomacy, it provides insights into how international law and relations operate and examines the complex relationship.

Book Middle Powers in World Trade Diplomacy

Download or read book Middle Powers in World Trade Diplomacy written by C. Efstathopoulos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how leading developing countries are increasingly shaping international economic negotiations, this book uses the case studies of India and South Africa to demonstrate the ability of states to exert diplomatic influence through different bargaining strategies and represent the interests of the developing world in global governance.

Book God s Diplomats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victor Gaetan
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2023-07-15
  • ISBN : 1538184672
  • Pages : 483 pages

Download or read book God s Diplomats written by Victor Gaetan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using inside sources and extensive field reporting about the secretive, high-stakes world of international diplomacy, Vatican reporter Victor Gaetan takes readers to the Holy See to explicate Pope Francis's diplomacy, show why it works, and to offer readers a startling contrast to the dangerous inadequacies of recent U.S. international decisions.

Book Bilateral Diplomacy and EU Membership

Download or read book Bilateral Diplomacy and EU Membership written by Sandra Sonnleitner and published by Nomos Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Buch widmet sich der Frage, wie die Mitgliedschaft in der EU nationalstaatliche bilaterale Diplomatie beeinflusst und verändert. Die Ergebnisse dieser empirischen Untersuchung zeigen das Wesen dieses Einflusses und seine Auswirkungen, anhand von Entwicklungen in Österreich nach 20 Jahren EU-Mitgliedschaft. Dabei steht das klassischste Element nationalstaatlicher bilateraler Diplomatie im Zentrum: das Außenministerium und sein diplomatischer Dienst. Die Studie basiert auf neo-institutionalistischen und organisationsanalytischen Ansätzen. Untersucht wurden Veränderungen und Anpassungen in Strukturen, Aufgaben und Prozessen sowie im Berufsbild und der professionellen Identität von Diplomatinnen und Diplomaten. Dabei wurden zwei Untersuchungsstränge, bilaterale Diplomatie innerhalb der EU und außerhalb der EU, gesondert betrachtet.

Book Digital International Relations

Download or read book Digital International Relations written by Corneliu Bjola and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how digital transformation disrupts established patterns of world politics, moving International Relations (IR) increasingly towards Digital International Relations. This volume examines technological, agential and ordering processes that explain this fundamental change. The contributors trace how digital disruption changes the international world we live in, ranging from security to economics, from human rights advocacy to deep fakes, and from diplomacy to international law. The book makes two sets of contributions. First, it shows that the ongoing digital revolution profoundly changes every major dimension of international politics. Second, focusing on the interplay of technology, agency and order, it provides a framework for explaining these changes. The book also provides a map for adjusting the study of international politics to studying International Relations, making a case for upgrading, augmenting and rewiring the discipline. Theory follows practice in International Relations, but if the discipline wants to be able to meaningfully analyse the present and come up with plausible scenarios for the future, it must not lag too far behind major transformations of the world that it studies. This book facilitates that theoretical journey. This book will be of much interest to students of cyber-politics, politics and technology, and International Relations.

Book The European External Action Service

Download or read book The European External Action Service written by David Spence and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions whether the institutions and practices of the emerging EU diplomatic system conform to established standards of the state-centric diplomatic order; or whether practice is paving the way for innovative, even revolutionary, forms of diplomatic organisation.

Book Liquid Sovereignty  Post Colonial Statehood of China and India in the New International Order

Download or read book Liquid Sovereignty Post Colonial Statehood of China and India in the New International Order written by Aleš Karmazin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book project studies the variation of sovereignty in international order by analysing how the general model of sovereignty is localised in the political practice of two major non-Western rising powers, namely China and India. It aims to investigate how the sovereignty of these states is constituted, which includes the question of how sovereignty works and becomes constituted in specific contexts and cases that fall outside the discourses and positions of the so-called Westphalian (conservative, absolutist) sovereignty that is dominantly advocated by these two states on a global level. The core of this project explores specific contested cases and situates them vis-à-vis the broader approaches of China and India to sovereignty. I specifically analyse four particular cases: China’s approach to sovereignty in relation to Hong Kong and Taiwan and India’s approach to sovereignty in relation to Bhutan and Kashmir. In doing so, I will illustrate that sovereignty is a flexible and plastic phenomenon which can be intertwined with principles, models or practices that are usually seen as divergent from or contradicting sovereignty; for example, those that derive from China’s and India’s imperial and colonial history.

Book Extradition Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miguel João Costa
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2019-09-24
  • ISBN : 9004411216
  • Pages : 675 pages

Download or read book Extradition Law written by Miguel João Costa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains an exhaustive analysis of extradition law and offers innovative perspectives thereon. It departs from both the classic paradigm and the mutual recognition approach, producing a new model based on respect for other States’ criminal justice idiosyncrasies.