Diplomacy in a Globalizing World ─ Theories and Practices

"In Diplomacy in a Globalizing World: Theories and Practices, twenty-three esteemed scholars contribute to the debate about the changing nature of contemporary diplomacy and its future theoretical and practical implications. Filling a gap in the foreign policy textbook market, this unique volume balances breadth with depth and theory with practice, illustrating through cutting-edge comparative analyses that twenty-first century diplomacy is best understood as "complex diplomacy." The selections analyze diplomacy's historical and contemporary developments; Western and non-Western diplomatic theories and practices; sociological and political theories of diplomacy; and various diplomatic structures, processes and instruments, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, public diplomacy, bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, and intelligence. The text is enhanced by numerous pedagogical tools"--

Pauline Kerr is Director of Studies in the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at The Australian National University. She is coeditor of China's "New" Diplomacy: Tactical or Fundamental Change? (2008).

Geoffrey Wiseman is Professor of The Practice of International Relations and Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. He is coeditor of American Diplomacy (2012) and The Diplomatic Corps as an Institution of International Society (2008).