Diplomatic Training

Jonathan Harris is Assistant Professor in Political Geography at Dublin City UniversityRuth Craggs is Reader in Political and Historical Geography at King’s College London Fiona McConnell is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Catherine's College

• Introduction: Theorising diplomatic training - Ruth Craggs, Jonathan Harris and Fiona McConnellPart I: Diplomatic training in the context of evolving geopolitics1 Learning internationalism: constructing identity through diplomatic training - Geoffrey Wiseman & Yolanda Spies2 Remembering diplomatic training in Africa, 1976-1990 - Guy Martin3 Rethinking Diplomatic Training: Adapting to a Changing World - Ron Ton4 Sites and Spaces in Diplomatic Training in Kenya: The Case of the Department of Diplomacy and International Studies, University of Nairobi - Patrick Maluki and Rebecca Sangura5 From Art to Academia: Diplomacy in UK Higher Education - Lesley Masters & Helen Drake6 Historical Evolutions of Diplomatic Training in Iran: Diplomatic Continuities amidst Domestic Changes and Global Transformations - Alireza Shams Lahijani & Nasrin Mosaffa7 Clingendael Academy: Shaping Diplomacy in South Africa’s Transformative Years - Ron TonPart II: The pedagogies and politics of diplomatic training8 Becoming a Diplomat: The history and present of diplomatic training in Norway - Øyvind Svendsen & Halvard Leira9 Ethnic Diplomats and Failed Inclusion in Ecuador - María Moreno and Fernando Garcia10 Brazil’s next generation of Indigenous diplomats - Cibele Reschke de Borba Bengtson11 The politics of international diplomatic training: Representation and socialisation in programmes for diplomats from the Balkans - Tobias Wille 12 Training ‘Unrepresented Diplomats’ - Mercè Monje Cano and Fiona McConnell13 The pedagogy of defence diplomacy: tensions and themes in the training of British defence attachés - An Jacobs and Tim Archer14 Diplomatic training in Eritrea: dignity, respect and the international sphere - Stephen Chan15 Postcolonial diplomatic fictions and/as diplomatic training - Sam Okoth Opondo

'With their broad and illuminating perspective, Ruth Craggs, Jonathan Harris and Fiona McConnell draw on legal, historical and political studies of the European experience to offer a fresh and global approach to the content, sites and power dynamics of diplomatic training. Bringing together specialists in the field and practitioners to discuss the approaches proposed in their remarkable introduction, they take the reader from the 1960s to the 2020s, from Africa to Latin America, via Iran and the Balkans. This pioneering book, which will be very useful for anyone involved in diplomatic academies and other training institutes, is also expected to become a reference work for historians.' Laurence Badel, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne'For a profession historically associated with tact, charm, and judgements of "taste" – all regarded as redoubts of elite privilege and stubbornly untrainable – the rise of formal diplomatic training in the twentieth century, especially since decolonization, should have attracted widespread scholarly interest and attention. This hasn’t been the case, and that makes this new book a major contribution to the study of diplomacy and international relations. Over 9 chapters by scholars and 7 "reflection pieces" from practitioners, this edited book uses up-close pedagogic encounters of diplomatic training across world regions to examine how training bureaucratically includes and excludes; produces and performs the "international"; and funnels hegemonic visions of the world yet also allows actors to contest these visions. With its empirically rich chapters and far-reaching insights, the book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the humanities and social sciences.' Deepak Nair, Australian National University