Routledge New Diplomacy Studies
About the Book Series
This new series publishes theoretically challenging and empirically authoritative studies of the traditions, functions, paradigms and institutions of modern diplomacy. Taking a comparative approach, the New Diplomacy Studies series aims to advance research on international diplomacy, publishing innovative accounts of how “old” and 'new' diplomats help steer international conduct between anarchy and hegemony, handle demands for international stability vs. international justice, facilitate transitions between international orders, and address global governance challenges. Dedicated to the exchange of different scholarly perspectives, the series aims to be a forum for inter-paradigm and inter-disciplinary debates, and an opportunity for dialogue between scholars and practitioners.
Science Diplomacy and Foreign Policy in Northern Europe: Models, Frameworks, and Strategies
1st Edition
By Monika Szkarłat, Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik, Wojciech Szczerbowicz, Damian Szacawa, Anna Moraczewska
December 08, 2025
This book analyses the foreign policy and science diplomacy models of ten Northern European countries, focusing on the Baltic Sea and European Arctic regions. Through a comparative, regionally grounded approach spanning post-Cold War developments to current geopolitical tensions, the volume ...
Reinvigorating the United Nations
1st Edition
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By Markus Kornprobst, Sławomir Redo
November 28, 2025
This book examines pathways for how to reinvigorate the United Nations, in light of recent crises. The United Nations requires reinvigoration. The organisation’s supply of global governance falls short of global demand in areas ranging from health to environment, while intra-state armed conflicts ...
Non-State Actors in Diplomacy: Peace Settlements with the Taliban and the Khmer Rouge
1st Edition
By Farkhondeh Akbari
November 12, 2025
This book examines which characteristics allow a non-state armed actor to be considered an effective diplomatic actor for the purpose of a meaningful peace settlement. The work demonstrates how such characteristics can potentially contribute to a more successful outcome in peacemaking initiatives ...
Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the 21st Century: The China Cultural Centre Project
1st Edition
By Minglei Wang
September 23, 2025
This book examines the China Cultural Centre (CCC) project’s establishment, operation, and programming through the lens of cultural diplomacy. The work illuminates the main structural and operational characteristics of the CCC project by highlighting their similarities and differences compared to ...
The Diplomatic Making of EU-China Relations: Structure, Substance and Style
1st Edition
By Lucie Qian Xia
July 31, 2025
This book provides a novel theoretical framework to understand EU-China diplomatic relations. The existing scholarly literature on EU-China relations is characterised by a dichotomous distinction between material and ideational factors and overemphasises the ‘interest versus value’ motif ...
Diplomacy as a Social World: Role Images and Diplomatic Memoirs
1st Edition
By Benedikt Franz
June 30, 2025
This book proposes a reconceptualization of diplomacy as a social world, which has implications for the study of diplomatic memoirs as speech acts and forms of communication in relation to role images of diplomats. In contrast to the dominant paradigm of Bourdieu-inspired practice theory, which ...
Diplomacy and Ideology: From the French Revolution to the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Alexander Stagnell
May 27, 2024
This innovative new book argues that diplomacy, which emerged out of the French Revolution, has become one of the central Ideological State Apparatuses of the modern democratic nation-state. The book is divided into four thematic parts. The first presents the central concepts and theoretical ...
Diplomacy, Communication, and Peace: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By William Maley
May 30, 2022
This book is composed of interconnected essays which reflect on challenging new issues related to diplomacy, communication, and peace. This book begins by drawing out some of the challenges for diplomacy that arise from modern theories of semantics and of strategic communication, as well as those ...
Security through Cooperation: To the Same End
1st Edition
By Walter A. Kemp
December 31, 2021
This book makes the case for why cooperation is the key to security within and between states, and for dealing with complex threats and challenges to international peace and security. It argues that cooperation is not altruism or liberal internationalism, rather it is in the self-interest of states...
China's Cultural Diplomacy: A Great Leap Outward?
1st Edition
By Xin Liu
June 30, 2021
This book examines China’s contemporary global cultural footprints through its recent development of cultural diplomacy.The volume presents an alternative analytical framework to examine China’s cultural diplomacy, which goes beyond the Western-defined concept of ‘soft power’ that prevails in the ...
Diplomacy and Borderlands: African Agency at the Intersections of Orders
1st Edition
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By Katharina Coleman, Markus Kornprobst, Annette Seegers
June 30, 2021
This book examines Africa’s internal and external relations by focusing on three core concepts: orders, diplomacy and borderlands. The contributors examine traditional and non-traditional diplomatic actors, and domestic, regional, continental, and global orders. They argue that African diplomats ...
Digital Diplomacy and International Organisations: Autonomy, Legitimacy and Contestation
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By Corneliu Bjola, Ruben Zaiotti
October 30, 2020
This book examines how international organisations (IOs) have struggled to adapt to the digital age, and with social media in particular. The global spread of new digital communication technologies has profoundly transformed the way organisations operate and interact with the outside world. This ...