Corneliu Bjola - Secret Diplomacy: Concepts, Contexts and Cases

Secret Diplomacy will enlighten and fascinate readers in academic and policymaking circles and in the broader public domain. The editors and contributors careful analysis of theories and practices of secret diplomacy historically and contemporarily sets an impressive standard of scholarship, research and argument.

Pauline Kerr, Australian National University, Australia

This book provides a much needed nuanced view about the evolution of a highly salient diplomatic practice. Exploring historical contingencies, its interplay with other modes of diplomacy, as well as discussing its legal and ethical implications, this book is full of important insights about the opportunities and perils of secret diplomacy. The case studies provide for a fascinating glimpse into the workings of secret diplomacy in 21st century world politics.

Markus Kornprobst, Vienna School of International Studies, Austria

Secret Diplomacy

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 the 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.

Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies, University of Oxford, UK, and author/editor of four previous books, including, most recently, Digital Diplomacy (Routledge, 2015).

Stuart Murray is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Diplomacy, Bond University, Australia, and Associate Editor of the journal Diplomacy and Foreign Policy.

Routledge New Diplomacy Studies

Series Editors: Corneliu Bjola

University of Oxford

and

Markus Kornprobst

Diplomatic Academy of Vienna

This new series publishes theoretically challenging and empirically authoritative studies of the traditions, functions, paradigms and institutions of modern diplomacy. Taking a comparative approach, the New Diplomacy Studies series aims to advance research on international diplomacy, publishing innovative accounts of how old and new diplomats help steer international conduct between anarchy and hegemony, handle demands for international stability versus international justice, facilitate transitions between international orders, and address global governance challenges. Dedicated to the exchange of different scholarly perspectives, the series aims to be a forum for inter-paradigm and inter-disciplinary debates, and an opportunity for dialogue between scholars and practitioners.

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Secret Diplomacy

Concepts, contexts and cases

Edited by Corneliu Bjola and Stuart Murray

Secret Diplomacy

Concepts, contexts and cases

Edited by Corneliu Bjola and Stuart Murray

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bjola, Corneliu, editor. | Murray, Stuart, editor.

Title: Secret diplomacy : concepts, contexts and cases / edited by Corneliu Bjola and Stuart Murray.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge new diplomacy studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015040275| ISBN 9781138999350 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315658391 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Diplomacy. | Official secrets. | DiplomacyCase studies. | Official secretsCase studies.

Classification: LCC JZ1305 .S424 2016 | DDC 327.2dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015040275

ISBN: 978-1-138-99935-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-65839-1 (ebk)