Secret Diplomacy: Concepts, Contexts And Cases (routledge New Diplomacy Studies)
by Stuart Murray /
2016 / English / PDF, EPUB
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This volume investigates secret diplomacy with the aim of
understanding its role in shaping foreign policy.
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.
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.
This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy,
intelligence studies, foreign policy and IR in general.