Diplomatic Sites: A Critical Enquiry (crises In World Politics)
by Iver Neumann /
2013 / English / EPUB
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Although diplomacy increasingly takes place in non-traditional
settings that are increasingly non-Western, our debates about
diplomacy still focus on traditional points of contact such as the
conference table, the ministerial office and the press conference.
This book is framed as a discussion on whether increasing
globalisation and the rise of powers such as China, India and
Brazil will precipitate a crisis in diplomacy; it also tackles the
problem of diplomatic Eurocentrism head on. The author, who has
broad working experience of diplomacy, reflects on sites that range
from the dining table--a quotidian and elementary meeting place
where all kinds of business is settled amid a variety of culturally
specific but little-known practices--via the civil-war interstices
where diplomats from third parties try to facilitate and mediate
conflict, to grand diplomatic extravaganzas, the object of which is
to overwhelm the other party. In a media age, popular understanding
of diplomacy is a force to be reckoned with, hence the book
discusses how diplomacy is represented in an almost wholly
overlooked space, namely that of popular culture. The author
concludes that, far from being in crisis, diplomatic activity is
increasingly in evidence in a variety of sites. Rather than being a
dying art, in today's globalized world it positively thrives.
Although diplomacy increasingly takes place in non-traditional
settings that are increasingly non-Western, our debates about
diplomacy still focus on traditional points of contact such as the
conference table, the ministerial office and the press conference.
This book is framed as a discussion on whether increasing
globalisation and the rise of powers such as China, India and
Brazil will precipitate a crisis in diplomacy; it also tackles the
problem of diplomatic Eurocentrism head on. The author, who has
broad working experience of diplomacy, reflects on sites that range
from the dining table--a quotidian and elementary meeting place
where all kinds of business is settled amid a variety of culturally
specific but little-known practices--via the civil-war interstices
where diplomats from third parties try to facilitate and mediate
conflict, to grand diplomatic extravaganzas, the object of which is
to overwhelm the other party. In a media age, popular understanding
of diplomacy is a force to be reckoned with, hence the book
discusses how diplomacy is represented in an almost wholly
overlooked space, namely that of popular culture. The author
concludes that, far from being in crisis, diplomatic activity is
increasingly in evidence in a variety of sites. Rather than being a
dying art, in today's globalized world it positively thrives.