Description: This book shows how changing diplomatic practices are central in explaining key dimensions of world politics, from law to war.
Brief description: Ole Jacob Sending is Director of Research at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).
Review Quotes: "As said of war and generals, diplomacy is too serious a matter to be left to the accredited representatives of the sovereign state. The authors offer new theoretical insights into the symbolic, strategic and institutional importance of traditional diplomacy while acknowledging cell-phone activists, camera-ready celebrities, humanitarian workers and lance corporals in a three-block war as the new faces of diplomacy. This collection has the jolt of an intellectual defibrillator, bringing diplomacy back from a grossly exaggerated death while nurturing emergent forms of global mediation."
James Der Derian, Director of the Centre for International Security Studies and Michael Hintze Professor of International Security, University of Sydney