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Transprofessional diplomacy
\"Diplomacy is no longer restricted to a single vocation nor implemented exclusively through interaction amongst official representatives. In exploring the challenges that these transformations produce, this work surveys firstly, the genealogy of diplomacy as a profession, tracing how it changed from a civic duty into a vocation requiring training and the acquisition of specific knowledge and skills. Secondly, using the lens of the sociology of professions, the development of diplomacy as a distinctive profession is examined, including its importance for the consolidation of the power of modern nation-states. Thirdly, it examines how the landscape of professional diplomacy is being diversified and, we argue, enriched by a series of non-state actors, with their corresponding professionals, transforming the phenomenology of contemporary diplomacy. Rather than seeing this pluralization of diplomatic actors in negative terms as the deprofessionalization of diplomacy, we frame these trends as transprofessionalization, that is, as a productive development that reflects the expanded diplomatic space and the intensified pace of global interconnections and networks, and the new possibilities they unleash for practising diplomacy in different milieus.\" Cover page 4.
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Diplomacy : a very short introduction
The course and consequences of major events of modern international diplomacy have shaped and changed the global world in which we live. Joseph M. Siracusa introduces the subject of diplomacy from a historical perspective, providing examples from significant historical phases and episodes to illustrate the art of diplomacy in action.
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The New Public Address System Why Do World Leaders Adopt Social Media?
The growth of social media—and, in particular, Twitter and Facebook—has led scholars to study its effects on mass behavior and protest. But leaders are also active on social media. They use their accounts to communicate with domestic and international audiences. By the end of 2014, more than 76 percent of world leaders had an active presence on social media. What explains variation in their adoption and use of social media? We look at several different potential hypotheses: higher income per capita and internet penetration (modernization), social pressure, level of democratization, and geographic spread of adoption (diffusion). We find strong support that (1) increased political pressure from social unrest and (2) higher levels of democratization correlate with leader adoption of social media platforms. Although our findings are correlational, they reveal that institutional and political pressures are related to social media adoption and the political communication of world leaders.
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Landmark negotiations from around the world : lessons for modern diplomacy
History is a source of education and insight for modern diplomacy. Through time, this book analyses 30 famous negotiations from around the World: from Roman Republic peace talks to the Philadelphia Convention, the Congress of Vienna and the first UK embassy in China, through two World Wars, as well as more recent examples such as the Iran Security Council resolutions and the Trump negotiations in Korea, just to name a few. Landmark Negotiations from Around the World' brings together the subject areas of history and negotiation studies. It focuses on their overlap and analyses past and present negotiations, applying the latest concepts of negotiation studies: a summary of each negotiation focusing on the chain of events is followed by a critical analysis cross-referencing the facts to modern negotiation theory concepts. In this way, each chapter provides answers to key questions such as: what made a successful negotiation possible? Why did a given failure occur? It helps us to identify and to qualify the good moves, the brilliant ideas, the unexpected coalitions and the uneasy situations that made a negotiation either a success or a failure.
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EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region A new space for a study of novel forms of diplomacy/Estrategia de la UE para la region del Mar Baltico: Un nuevo espacio para el estudio de nuevas formas de diplomacia/Strategie de I'UE pour la region de la mer Baltique. Un nouvel espace pour I'etude de nouvelles formes de diplomatic
The evolution of the EU multilevel governance unleashes new dynamics that hold a potential to contribute to the theory-building of paradiplomacy and honing of a more nuanced understanding what is to be understood with science diplomacy in the EU specific setting. When evaluated in the context of a broader body of literature on paradiplomacy and science diplomacy, new empirical examples from the EU macroregional governance level, such as the discussed role of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in coordinating a flagship of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region called \"Baltic Science Network,\" should be treated with caution in terms of paying full attention to the distinct institutional environment in which a sub-national actor operates and pursues its initiatives. Keywords: Baltic Sea Region, multilevel governance, paradiplomacy, science diplomacy La evolution de la gobernanza multiniveles en la UE desencadena una nueva dinamica que podria contribuir a la teorizacion de la para-diplomacia y a una comprension mas matizada de diplomacia cientifica en el marco especifico de la UE. Cuando se evaluan en el contexto general de la literatura sobre para-diplomacia y diplomacia cientifica, los nuevos ejemplos empiricos de gobernanza macro-regional europea, como el controvertido papel de la Ciudad Libre y Hanseatica de Hamburgo en la coordination del \"Baltic Science Network\" como parte de la estrategia europea para la region del Mar Baltico, deben tratarse con cautela con respecto a la atencion al entorno institutional diferenciado en el que un agente sub-national opera y lleva a cabo sus iniciativas. Palabras clave: diplomacia cientifica, gobernanza multi-nivel, Hamburgo, paradiplomacia, Union Europea L'evolution de la gouvernance multi-niveaux de l'UE genere une nouvelle dynamique qui pourrait contribuer a la theorisation de la paradiplomatie et a une comprehension plus nuancee du concept de diplomatie scientifique dans le cadre specifique de l'UE. Lorsqu'ils sont evalues dans le contexte d'ensemble de la litterature sur la paradiplomatie et la diplomatie scientifique, les nouveaux exemples empiriques de gouvernance macro-regionale au sein de l'UE, tels que le role dispute de la Ville Libre et Hanseatique de Hambourg dans la coordination d'une strategie de l'UE pour la region de la mer Baltique appelee \"Baltic Science Network\", doivent etre traites avec prudence pour ce qui est de l'attention portee a l'environnement institutionnel distinct dans lequel un acteur sous-national opere et poursuit ses initiatives. Mots cles: diplomatie scientifique, gouvernance multi-niveaux, Hambourg, paradiplomatie, Union europeenne.
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Diplomatic history : a very short introduction
Diplomatic history explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of negotiations. From the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and its aftermath, Versailles, and the personal summitry behind the night Stalin and Churchill Divided Europe, to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, and diplomacy in the age of globalization, the management of power relationships has had an immense impact on our recent history. This Very Short Introduction updates the former Diplomacy: A Very Short Introduction and illustrates international diplomacy in action, exploring the changes in method at key historical junctures, and highlighting the very different demands that circumstances make on the practice of diplomats. Drawing on the case studies above, it makes sense of the way in which skillful diplomacy, as well as hubris, rashness, and excessive caution, can have important ramifications for the fate of nations. Based on the experiences of diplomatic history, it also locates the universal role of negotiations and identifies the key elements of success. As Joseph M. Siracusa shows, diplomacy was and is an indispensable element of statecraft, and without skillful diplomacy political success may remain elusive.
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En la frontera: estudios de caso en América Latina y la Unión Europea
Ensayos bibliográficos deAlejandra Ramírez Soruco, Yolanda Alfaro y Alina Stoica (Comp.). (2024) Fronteras y problemáticas ciudadanas. Mirada Comparativa entre Unión Europea y Región Latinoamericana. Cochabamba, Bolivia Universidad Mayor de San Simón – Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios (CESU) / Universidad de Oradea / Grupo de Trabajo Fronteras movilidades, identidades y comercios de la CLACSO / Jean Monnet Module EU Cultural Diplomacy in the Andean Community. 302 pp. ISBN 978-99905-72-02-5
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