This book is dedicated to how diplomacy makes, develops, and trades in knowledge. It proposes an approach to examine how diplomatic knowledge production describes what diplomats see, how these descriptions develop, and whether they were convincing to one's own policymakers or even those of other actors. These descriptions are vital: actors can be inserted into global categories Communism or Terrorism that beget significant security, relational and policy consequences. Diplomacy and policy constitute the world we inhabit based on what policymakers made of descriptions, assessments, and analysis. Such is the power of knowing who we and the others are.
By:
Pablo de Orellana
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781526159892
ISBN 10: 1526159899
Series: Key Studies in Diplomacy
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 April 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
PART I: OUVERTURES 1 Initial démarches 2 Diplomacy: from instrumental practice to textual knowledge production 3 Method: analysing how diplomacy writes identity PART II: ON THE TRAIL OF DIPLOMACY’S DESCRIPTIONS 4 The diplomacy of the First Vietnam War 5 The diplomacy of the Western Sahara conflict PART III: AGENCY AND THE DIPLOMATIC TEXT 6 On the power of diplomacy: writing, representation, and agency 7 Final demarche -- .
Pablo de Orellana is a Lecturer in International Relations at King's College, London.
