International Diplomacy
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Following on from where 2004's widely acclaimed three-volume SAGE collection, Diplomacy (ed. Jonsson & Langhorne) left off, this new four-volume major work takes a new look at a subject which has matured and developed significantly over the past decade. With the rise of India, China and Brazil as well as of the global south, diplomacy's history looks different. Significant shifts have prompted scholars in the field to reconsider the historical sequences that are relevant to an understanding of what diplomacy is today, and where it may be heading. Increased medialization of glovbal politics and diplomacy has prompted an exponential growth in literature on public diplomacy.
This collection has been carefully structured so that each volume gives the reader an overview of the literature on a new ...
Editors' Introduction: International Diplomacy
Where there is a multiplicity of polities, relations between them have somehow to be maintained. In the days before the dawn of agriculture some 17,000 years ago, when humans lived in bands of about 40 to 200 individuals, relations with other bands were a major concern. For those of us who maintain the hunter and gatherer lifestyle, they still are.
Within empires and large states such as India or the United States, where different polities (states, diasporas, towns, corporations, etc.) thrive shoulder by shoulder, the number of people making their living from maintaining relations between them is on the rise. If we imagine a future where there exists an organised and powerful global polity, by the same token, the need ...
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