International Diplomacy

Iver B. Neumann is Director of The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. He has previously served as professor at the University of Oslo and the London School of Economics, and been an Associate Editor of the International Studies Quarterly. Neumann’s areas of expertise are social theory, qualitative methods, diplomacy and Russian foreign policy. His latest books are (with Einar Wigen) The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building, 4000 BCE-2018 CE (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018); Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties, Ann Arbor, MI: (University of Michigan Press, 2019) and Diplomatic Tenses: Past, Present, Future (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021).

• VOLUME ONE: DIPLOMATIC INSTITUTIONS PART ONE: BEGINNINGSThe Primitive ′Diplomats′ - Ragnar Numelin The Roman Rolls of Edward II as a Source of Administrative and Diplomatic Practice in the Early 14th Century - Barbara Bombi Prudence and Experience - Daniela Frigo Ambassadors and Political Culture in Early Modern ItalyEarly Modern Diplomatic Ceremonial - William Roosen A Systems Approach The Failed Gift - Jan Hennings Ceremony and Gift-Giving in Anglo-Russian Relations, 1662-1664PART TWO: FROM INSTITUTIONS TO ORGANIZATIONSJudges, Merchants and Envoys - Halvard Leira and Iver B. Neumann The Growth and Development of the Consular InstitutionThe French Political Academy, 1712 - H.M.A Keens-Soper A School for Ambassadors The Concert of Europe - Richard Elrod A Fresh Look at an International System Introduction - Brian Hocking Foreign Ministries: Redefining the Gatekeeper RolePetticoat Diplomacy - Helen McCarthy The Admission of Women to the British Foreign ServiceConclusion - Paul Sharp and Geoffrey Wiseman The Diplomatic Corps′ Role in Constituting International SocietyOn the Origins of ′Parliamentary Diplomacy′ - Norbert Götz Scandinavian ′Bloc Politics′ and Delegation Policy in the League of NationsEyes on the Prize - David Malone The Quest for Non-Permanent Seats on the United Nations Security Council Consensus Making in the United Nations Security Council - Niels Nagelhus SchiaHow Informal Processes may Enforce Inequality Between the MemberstatesVOLUME TWO: DIPLOMACY IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD PART ONE: THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEGACYEuro-Centric Diplomacy - Iver B. Neumann Challenging but Manageable The Language of Kinship Diplomacy - Christopher Jones Passing on Political Information between Major Powers - Nicolas Drocourt The Key Role of Ambassadors between Byzantium and Some of Its Neighbours PART TWO: THE UNACKNOWLEDGED LEGACYA Neighbourless Empire? The Forgotten Diplomatic Tradition of Imperial China - Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson The Mongol Orders of Submission to European Powers, 1245-1255 - Eric Voegelin The Letters of Eljigidei, H leg and Abaqa - Denise Aigle Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism? Another Look at the Function of Wampum in Iroquois-White Councils - Michael Foster Gender, Politics and Diplomacy - James Daybell Women, News and Intelligence Networks in Elizabethan England Diplomatic History as a Field for Cultural Analysis - Christian Windler Muslim-Christian Relations in Tunis, 1700-1840 A Case Study of the Construction of International Hierarchy - Edward Keene British Treaty-Making against the Slave Trade in the Early 19th Century PART THREE: THE LIVED-DOWN CHALLENGESThomas Jefferson and American Foreign Policy - Robert Tucker and David Hendrickson Distinctive Characteristics of American Diplomacy - Geoffrey Wiseman ′The Reign of the Charlatans Is Over′ - Linda Frey and Marsha Frey The French Revolutionary Attack on Diplomatic Practice Soviet Diplomacy: G.V. Chicherin, Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs, 1918-1930 - Theodore Von Laue Mullah Zaeef and Taliban Diplomacy - Paul Sharp An English-School Approach VOLUME THREE: THE PLURALIZATION OF DIPLOMACY - CHANGING ACTORS, DEVELOPING ARENAS AND NEW ISSUESPART ONE: THE ACTORS AND ARENASTerritorial Order and Collective-Identity Tensions in Confucian Asia - Alexander WoodsideChina, Vietnam, KoreaThe Return of the Standard of Civilization - David Fidler On Homo-Diplomacy - Costas Constantinou Reading Habermas in Anarchy - Jennifer Mitzen Multilateral Diplomacy and Global Public Spheres The New Diplomacy - John Robert Kelley Evolution of a Revolution On the Normalization of Sub-State Diplomacy - Noé Cornago Foreign Policy According to Freud - William Davidson and Joseph Montville European Union Diplomacy - Rebecca Adler-Nissen Late Sovereign Diplomacy Grab a Phaser, Ambassador - Iver B. Neumann Diplomacy in Star Trek PART TWO: ISSUESThe New Media and Transparency - Steven Livingston What Are the Consequences for Diplomacy?Media Impact on Diplomatic Practice - Christina Archetti An Evolutionary Model of ChangeNavigating the Global Health Terrain - David Fidler Mapping Global Health Diplomacy Diplomacy and the Polio Immunization Boycott In Northern Nigeria - Judith Kaufmann and Harley Feldbaum Summit Theatre - Carl Death Exemplary Governmentality and Environmental Diplomacy in Johannesburg and CopenhagenChange in Consular Assistance and the Emergence of Consular Diplomacy - Maaike Okano-Heijmans VOLUME FOUR: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUESPublic Relations and Public Diplomacy - Benno Signitzer and Timothy Coombs Conceptual ConvergencesBranding Territory - Peter Van Ham Inside the Wonderful Worlds of Public Relations and Industrial Relations Theory Wielding Soft Power - Jan Melissen The New Public Diplomacy Advancing the New Public Diplomac - Kathy Fitzpatrick A Public-Relations Perspective Searching for a Theory of Public Diplomacy - Eytan Gilboa Moving from Monologue to Dialogue to Collaboration - Geoffrey Cowan and Amelia Arsenault The Three Layers of Public Diplomacy PART TWO: EMERGING ISSUES AND THE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY OF GREAT AND SMALLAmerican Public Diplomacy - Bruce Gregory Enduring Characteristics, Elusive TransformationPublic Diplomacy and the Rise of Chinese Soft Power - Yiwei Wang Public Diplomacy in Small and Medium-Sized States - Josef Bátora Norway and Canada Web 2.0 and Public Diplomacy - Hannes Richter Pigman Public Diplomacy, Place-Branding and Investment-Promotion in Ambiguous Sovereignty Situations - Geoffrey Allen The Cook Islands as a Best Practice CaseMusic for the Jilted Generation - Ali Fisher Open Source Public DiplomacyConsuls for Hire - Geoffrey Allen Pigman and Anthony Deos Private Actors, Public DiplomacyPART THREE: THE WAY FORWARDWhat Became of the New Public Diplomacy? Recent Developments in British, United States and Swedish Public Diplomacy Policy and Evaluation Methods - James Pamment Beyond the New Public Diplomacy - Jan Melissen