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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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Music in America's Cold War diplomacy
During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Presentations program. Performances of music in many styles—classical, rock ’n’ roll, folk, blues, and jazz—competed with those by traveling Soviet and mainland Chinese artists, enhancing the prestige of American culture. These concerts offered audiences around the world evidence of America’s improving race relations, excellent musicianship, and generosity toward other peoples. Through personal contacts and the media, musical diplomacy also created subtle musical, social, and political relationships on a global scale. Although born of state-sponsored tours often conceived as propaganda ventures, these relationships were in themselves great diplomatic achievements and constituted the essence of America’s soft power. Using archival documents and newly collected oral histories, Danielle Fosler-Lussier shows that musical diplomacy had vastly different meanings for its various participants, including government officials, musicians, concert promoters, and audiences. Through the stories of musicians from Louis Armstrong and Marian Anderson to orchestras and college choirs, Fosler-Lussier deftly explores the value and consequences of \"musical diplomacy.\"
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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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Whales and Nations
Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry. In Whales and Nations, Kurkpatrick Dorsey tells the story of the international negotiation, scientific research, and industrial development behind these efforts and their ultimate failure.
Whales and Nations begins in the early twentieth century, when new technology revived the fading whaling industry and made whale hunting possible on an unprecedented scale. By the 1920s, declining whale populations prompted efforts to develop rational what today would be called sustainable whaling practices. But even though almost everyone involved with commercial whaling knew that the industry was on an unsustainable path, Dorsey argues, powerful economic, political, and scientific forces made failure nearly inevitable.
Based on a deep engagement with diplomatic history, Whales and Nations provides a unique perspective on the challenges facing international conservation projects. This history has profound implications for today s pressing questions of global environmental cooperation and sustainability.
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After Lavinia
The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just
like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early
modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the
diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his
enemy, the two parties often sealed their settlement with marriages
between their respective families. In After Lavinia , John
Watkins traces the history of the practice, focusing on the
unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary
production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth
century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige
as a tool of diplomacy.Watkins begins with Virgil's foundational
myth of the marriage between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Latin
princess, an account that formed the basis for numerous medieval
and Renaissance celebrations of dynastic marriages by courtly poets
and propagandists. In the book's second half, he follows the slow
decline of diplomatic marriage as both a tool of statecraft and a
literary subject, exploring the skepticism and suspicion with which
it was viewed in the works of Spenser and Shakespeare. Watkins
argues that the plays of Corneille and Racine signal the passing of
an international order that had once accorded women a place of
unique dignity and respect.
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The Geopolitics of Culture
Through the lens of James Billington and the institution
he led as Librarian of Congress during a key period of US-Russian
relations, The Geopolitics of
Culture examines culture as a neglected area
of US foreign policy. Billington advised presidents and
members of Congress and mobilized the resources of the Library of
Congress to promote reform in Russia. He believed that rather than
preaching to the Russians, the United States should expose the
rising generation of Russian leaders to what was best in America
and encourage them to rediscover positive elements in pre-Bolshevik
Russian culture.
The Geopolitics of Culture is the first book to
chronicle Billington's influence on US engagement with Russia as it
transitioned from communism to democracy under Gorbachev and
Yeltsin and back to authoritarianism under Yeltsin and Putin.
Drawing on published and archival sources (including recently
released papers) and interviews with current and retired Library of
Congress staff members, John Van Oudenaren casts new light on this
era.
Billington's efforts led to a remarkable degree of cooperation
between the Library of Congress and Russian cultural and political
institutions. Yet these efforts ultimately failed as Putin turned
back toward authoritarianism. The experience of the Library of
Congress during this period nonetheless holds important lessons for
today. Billington believed that a transition to democracy in Russia
was essential if the United States was to head off the geopolitical
nightmare of a Eurasia dominated by an alliance of hostile
authoritarian powers. The \"geopolitics of culture\" thus remains a
challenge for US foreign policy.
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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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Taking Books to the World
Franklin Publications, or Franklin Book Programs, was started in 1952 as a form of cultural diplomacy. Until it folded in the 1970s, Franklin translated, printed, and distributed American books around the world, with offices in Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Although it was a private firm, Franklin received funding from the United States Information Agency. This was an ambitious and idealistic postwar effort that ultimately became the victim of shifting politics.
In Taking Books to the World, Amanda Laugesen tells the story of this purposeful enterprise, demonstrating the mix of goodwill and political drive behind its efforts to create modern book industries in developing countries. Examining the project through a clarifying lens, she reveals the ways Franklin's work aligned with cultural currents, exposing the imperial beliefs, charitable hopes, and intellectual reasoning behind this global experiment.
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