Corneliu Bjola - Understanding International Diplomacy: Theory, Practice and Ethics

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Understanding International Diplomacy

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of international diplomacy, covering both theory and practice. This second edition has been revised and updated, with new material on such key contemporary issues as Syria, Ukraine, migration and the South China Sea.

The text summarizes and discusses the major trends in the field of diplomacy, providing an innovative theoretical approach to understanding diplomacy not as a collection of practices or a set of historical traditions, but as a form of institutionalized communication through which authorized representatives produce, manage and distribute public goods. The book:

Traces the evolution of diplomacy from its beginnings in ancient Egypt, Greece and China to our current age of global diplomacy.

Examines theoretical explanations about how diplomats take decisions, make relations and shape the world.

Discusses normative approaches to how diplomacy ought to adapt itself to the twenty-first century, help re-make states and assist the peaceful evolution of international order.

In sum, Understanding International Diplomacy provides an up-to-date, accessible and authoritative overview of how diplomacy works and, indeed, ought to work in a globalized world.

This textbook will be essential reading for students of international diplomacy, and is highly recommended for students of crisis negotiation, international organizations, foreign policy and IR in general.

Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. He has authored or edited six books, including the recent co-edited volumes Countering Online Propaganda and Violent Extremism (with James Pamment, 2018), Secret Diplomacy (with Stuart Murray, 2016) and Digital Diplomacy (with Marcus Holmes, 2015).

Markus Kornprobst is Professor of International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria. He is author of Irredentism in International Politics (2008) and co-editor of Metaphors of Globalization, Arguing Global Governance (with Vincent Pouliot and Nisha Shah, 2008), Arguing Global Governance (with Corneliu Bjola, 2010) and Communication, Legitimation and Morality in Modern Politics (with Uriel Abulof, 2017).

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Writing with clarity, authority and insight, Bjola and Kornprobst deliver the essential introduction to the study and practice of diplomacy. The welcome second edition includes new scholarship and tackles the emerging issues that are defining our time including migration and the crises in Syria and Ukraine. No less significantly, the volume also considers new techniques of diplomacy from social media to the emergence of cities as foreign policy actors. This book is an invaluable guide to a vital field.

Nicholas J. Cull, Professor of Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California, USA

In many ways superior to the original, the revised edition updates the evolution and transformation of diplomacy, more balanced in theory and practice, wide in scope and succinct in narration, a rich menu for both students and practitioners of diplomacy.

Zhang Qingmin, Professor and Chair, Department of Diplomacy, Peking University, China

Adopting a broad understanding of diplomacy and taking us on an exciting tour from foreign policy implementation to ethics, from bilateral engagements to plurilateral and paradiplomatic ones, from traditional channels to new forms of diplomatic communication Understanding International Diplomacy is a welcome and valuable addition to the expanding field of diplomatic studies. It provides an excellent introduction and essential textbook for both the reflexive practitioner and the intellectually curious student of diplomacy.

Costas M. Constantinou, Professor of International Relations, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Understanding International
Diplomacy

Theory, Practice and Ethics

Second Edition

Corneliu Bjola and
Markus Kornprobst

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Second edition published 2018
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First edition published by Routledge 2013.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Names: Bjola, Corneliu, author. | Kornprobst, Markus, author.

Title: Understanding international diplomacy : theory, practice and ethics / Corneliu Bjola, Markus Kornprobst.

Description: Second Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017047134| ISBN 9781138717305 (Hardback) | ISBN 9781138717343 (Paperback) | ISBN 9781315196367 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: International cooperation. | International relations.

Classification: LCC JZ1308 .B58 2018 | DDC 327.2dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017047134

ISBN: 978-1-138-71730-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-71734-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-19636-7 (ebk)

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We would like to extend our thanks to Andrew Humphrys and Hannah Ferguson who have been tremendously helpful in assisting us with the publication of the second edition as well as to the blind peer reviewers for their valuable and constructive criticism. We would also like to express our gratitude to Lise H. Andersen and Corina Traistaru for their superb research assistance as well as the Oxford Department of International Development and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna for partially funding this project. In writing this book, we took quite a lot of inspiration from our students. It is very much with them and their contributions to our class discussions in mind that we have written this book. We therefore dedicate this book to them.

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