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Diplomatic Sites: A Critical Enquiry
Iver B. Neumann
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Description for Diplomatic Sites: A Critical Enquiry
Hardback. An entertaining investigation of the parameters and semiotics of the new diplomacy Series: Crises in World Politics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 380.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Crises in World Politics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849042406
SKU
V9781849042406
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About Iver B. Neumann
Iver B. Neumann is professor and Director of Research at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). Between 1980 and 2005, he worked in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in four different capacities, for a total of six years. His latest books are At Home with the Diplomats and (with Ole Jacob Sending), Governing the Global Polity.
Reviews for Diplomatic Sites: A Critical Enquiry
'Iver Neumann presents a bold new approach: the study of diplomacy as anthropology. The subject is ideally suited to such a method, and it is a surprise it has not been attempted before. - In [a] stimulating, wide-ranging and, occasionally, engagingly eccentric work... he has interpreted his rich experience as fieldwork and analysed it in this light. Such a perspective ... Read more