MASTER INTERNATIONALE BETREKKINGEN EN DIPLOMATIE
PROF. MELISSEN
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DIPLOMACY
OVERVIEW
CHAPTER ONE: HISTORY - DIPLOMACY BEFORE THE STATE
1. Raymond Cohen, ʻDiplomacy through the Agesʼ, in Pauline Kerr and Geoffrey Wiseman, Diplomacy in the
Age of Globalisation: Theories and Practices. 15-20.
2. Fletcher, Catherine, Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome: The Rise of the Resident Ambassador, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2015, Ch. 2 and 5, 36-58 and 105-121.
CHAPTER TWO: THEORY - DEFINITIONS, ACTORS, PRACTICES
3. Geoffrey Wiseman, ʻDiplomacyʼ, The SAGE Handbook of Political Science, Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2020,
pp.1193-1213.
4. Paul Sharp, ʻDiplomacy in International Relations Theory and Other Disciplinary Perspectivesʼ, in: Pauline
Kerr and Geoff Wiseman, Diplomacy in A Globalizing World: Theories and Practices, New York and Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2017 edition, 57-71.
5. Slaughter, Anne-Marie, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World,
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017, Ch. 1-3 and 7, pp. 29-75 and 161-182
CHAPTER THREE: LEADERS - SUMMITRY
6. Leguey-Feilleux, Jean-Robert, ʻSummit and Ministerial Diplomacyʼ, Ch. 10 in: The Dynamics of Diplomacy,
London and Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2009, 293-329.
7. Marcus Holmes and Nicholas Wheeler, 'Social bonding in diplomacy', International Theory, 12:1 (2020),
pp. 133-161.
8. Tristen Naylor, 'All That's Lost: The Hollowing of Summit Diplomacy in a Socially Distanced World', The
Hague Journal of Diplomacy 15:4 (2020)
CHAPTER FOUR: COMMUNICATION - THE PUBLIC
9. CULL, N., ʻThe Tightrope to Tomorrow: Reputational Security, Collective Vision and the Future of Public
Diplomacyʼ, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 14:1-2 (2019), pp. 21-35.
10. Melissen, Jan, ʻPublic diplomacyʼ in: Pauline Kerr and Geoffrey Wiseman (eds), Diplomacy in the Age of
Globalization: Theories and Practices, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 (2nd ed), 199-218
11. NYE, J.S. ʻSo Power and Public Diplomacy Revisitedʼ, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 14:1-2 (2019), pp.
7-20.
CHAPTER FIVE: SERVICE - CONSULAR ASSISTANCE
12. Okano-Heijmans, Maaike ʻConsular affairs and diplomacyʼ, in Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine and Ramesh
Thakur (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013,
473-492.
13. Tindall, K. and 't Hart P., 'Evaluating Government Performance During Consular Emergencies: Toward an
Analytical Framework', Policy and Society 30:20 (2017), pp. 137-149.
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14. Jan Melissen, ʻThe First Consular Challenge: Communicating Assistance to Nationals Abroadʼ, Asia and the
Pacific Policy Studies 7:2 (2020), 217-228.
CHAPTER SIX: DIGITALISATION - UPSKILLING PRACTICE
15. De Keulenaar, E.V. and Melissen, J. ʼCritical Digital Diplomacy and How Theory Can inform Practiceʼ, in:
Volker Stanzel (ed.), New Realities in Foreign Affairs: Diplomacy in the 21st Century, Baden-Baden:
Nomos, 2019, 63-70.
16. Eggeling, Kristin Annabel, Adler-Nissen, Rebecca, 'The Synthetic Situation in Diplomacy: Scopic Media
and the Digital Media of Estrangement', Global Studies Quarterly, 1:2 (2021) 1-14.
17. Jérémie Cornut, Susan Gail Harris Rimmer and Ivy Choi, 'The liquidification of international politics and
Trump's (un)diplomacy on Twitter, International Politics (2021).
CHAPTER SEVEN: SCIENCE - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIPLOMACY
18. Pierre-Bruno Ruffini, 'Collaboration and Competition: The Twofold Logic of Science Diplomacy, The
Hague Journal of Diplomacy 15:3 (2020) pp. 371-382.
19. Charlotte Rungius and Tim Flink, 'Romancing science for global solutions: on narratives and
interpretative schemas of science diplomacy', Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 102:7
(2020), pp. 1-10.
20. Lorenzo Melchor, 'What is a Science Diplomat', The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 15:3 (2020) pp. 409-423.
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CHAPTER ONE
HISTORY - DIPLOMACY THROUGH THE AGES
READING 1 DIPLOMACY THROUGH THE AGES
1. INTRODUCTION
● Sovereigns conducted relations through official emissaries
○ Importance relationships other sovereigns → extended family
○ (In)tangible needs
■ Intangible: recognition, approval
■ Tangible: goods, soldiers
● Development of diplomacy since emergence of urban civilisation in ancient Mesopotamia
Evolvement over time Surprising continuity: main tools
● Political embryology: observing the progress of an organism from its first appearance to its latest
manifestation in accordance with consistent, internal logic
2. ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN DIPLOMACY
● Earliest evidence diplomacy: royal inscriptions dedicated to gods
○ Found in ruins of ancient cities southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq)
○ 2500 BC
○ Refer to relations between city-states
■ Armed struggles, coalitions, border disputes, arbitration awards
○ Royal ʻenvoysʼ → messengers
○ Warfare: strong normative sense of order
■ Borders divinely ordained and inviolable
■ Defensive war permissible
○ Diplomatic message on baked clay tablet
■ Carried in pouch slung around neck
■ Received in audience and read out
● ʻCuneiform diplomacyʼ
○ Basic features
■ Network of city-states served by messengers travelling sometimes long distances
■ A working relationship between kings bound by ties of brotherhood
■ The obligation to reciprocity
■ Palace bureaucracy that dispatched (and received) envoys
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