Afghanistan and the Coloniality of Diplomacy

Maximilian Drephal lectures in the School of Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University, UK, and is Research Associate in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, UK, where he has taught as Lecturer in International History. He has previously published in Modern Asian Studies and in the edited collection Sport and Diplomacy: Games within Games (2018).

• 1 Introduction: empire, colony and diplomacy.- 2 The remaking of anglo-afghan relations.- 3 Subaltern biographies.- 4 Biography and imperial governance.- 5 Accreditation and performance.- 6 Diplomatic bodies.- 7 Architecture.- 8 From colonial legation to postimperial embassy.- 9 Conclusions: the coloniality of diplomacy.-

“This book is a valuable addition to the growing literature on Afghanistan’s entanglements with the British empire. … The book does a remarkable job at delineating the ways in which this diplomatic representation went to great lengths to fashion itself as a ,colonial project en miniature‘ along the model of British residencies … .” (Francesca Fuoli, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, May 21, 2021)