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This book enterprises a quest to crack open the secrets of diplomatic knowledge production by building and applying the tools to map, assess, and trace the impact of descriptions of international a...
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  • 18 March 2025
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This book is dedicated to how diplomacy makes, develops, and trades in knowledge. It proposes an approach to examine how diplomatic knowledge production describes what diplomats see, how these descriptions develop, and whether they were convincing to one’s own policymakers or even those of other actors. These descriptions are vital: actors can be inserted into global categories Communism or Terrorism that beget significant security, relational and policy consequences. Diplomacy and policy constitute the world we inhabit based on what policymakers made of descriptions, assessments, and analysis. Such is the power of knowing who we and the others are.
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Price: $130.00
Pages: 304
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Key Studies in Diplomacy
Publication Date: 18 March 2025
ISBN: 9781526159892
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: Constitution: government and the state, International relations, Diplomacy
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'Given the ongoing onslaughts on sovereignty, multilateralism, international law, overseas aid, higher education and humanitarianism, Pablo de Orellana's Hand of the prince offers a reminder of why diplomacy should still matter... the book will benefit politicians, diplomats, academics, students and the general reader alike.'
Michael Sanfey, International Affairs

Pablo de Orellana is a Lecturer in International Relations at King’s College, London

PART I: OUVERTURES
1 Initial démarches
2 Diplomacy: from instrumental practice to textual knowledge production
3 Method: analysing how diplomacy writes identity
PART II: ON THE TRAIL OF DIPLOMACY’S DESCRIPTIONS
4 The diplomacy of the First Vietnam War
5 The diplomacy of the Western Sahara conflict
PART III: AGENCY AND THE DIPLOMATIC TEXT
6 On the power of diplomacy: writing, representation, and agency
7 Final demarche