Understanding International Diplomacy

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of international diplomacy, covering both theory and practice. The third edition has been updated and revised, with new chapters on the digital turn, contemporary crises and power shifts in modern diplomacy.

Autorentext

Corneliu Bjola is Professor of Digital Diplomacy at the University of Oxford, UK, and the Head of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group. His most recent publications include the Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy (2023) and Digital International Relations: Technology, Agency and Order (2023).

Markus Kornprobst is Professor of International Relations at the Vienna School of International Studies, Austria. He is the author of Irredentism in European Politics (2008) and Co-managing International Crises (2019) and co-editor of ten books and publishes in leading journals in diplomacy and international relations.

Inhalt

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 Why and how to study diplomacy PART II: TRACING DIPLOMACY 2 Historical Evolution 3 Central Themes of Diplomatic Thought 4 Expansion and Contraction of Diplomacy PART III: MAPPING DIPLOMACY 5 Contexts of Diplomacy 6 Tasks of Global Diplomacy PART IV: EXPLAINING DIPLOMACY 7 Making Judgments 8 Making Relations 9 Making Order PART V: REMAKING DIPLOMACY 10 The Digital Turn 11 Crises in the Inter-epoch 12 Diplomatic Power PART VI: CONCLUSION 13 The Philosophy of Diplomacy