Ministries of foreign affairs are prominent institutions of state diplomacy. They remain the operators of key practices associated with diplomacy: communication, representation and negotiation. This book fills a gap by approaching ministries of foreign affairs in a comparative and comprehensive way.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Contributors -- 1 Ministries of Foreign Affairs: A Crucial Institution to be Revisited / Christian Lequesne -- Part 1: Recruitment and Career -- 2 The Social Origin of Career Diplomats in Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Still an Upper-Class Elite? / Karla Gobo and Claudia Santos -- 3 The Gendered Networking of Diplomats / Birgitta Niklasson -- 4 Ethnic Diversity in the Recruitment of Diplomats: Why MFA s Take the Issue Seriously / Christian Lequesne, Gabriel Castillo, Minda Holm, Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, Halvard Leira, Kamna Tiwary and Reuben Wong -- 5 The Making of a Diplomatic Elite in a Revolutionary State: Loyalty, Expertise and Representativeness in Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Guillaume Beaud -- Part 2: Diplomacy and Politics -- 6 Expertise and Politics in Ministries of Foreign Affairs: The Politician-Diplomat Nexus / Geoffrey Wiseman -- 7 The Impact of Leader-Centric Populism on Career Diplomats: Tests of Loyalty, Voice, and Exit in Ministries of Foreign Affairs / Andrew F. Cooper -- 8 The Impact of Globalisation and Neoliberal Structural Reforms on the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Jorge A. Schiavon and Bruno Figueroa -- Part 3: New Policy Practices -- 9 Implementing the EU’s Russia Sanctions: A Geoeconomic Test Case for French and German Ministries of Foreign Affairs / Kim B. Olsen -- 10 Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Challenge of Science Diplomacy / Pierre-Bruno Ruffini -- 11 Consular Diplomacy in the Era of Growing Mobility / Jan Melissen -- 12 Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Lessons from Denmark’s TechPlomacy Initiative / Casper Klynge, Mikael Ekman and Nikolaj Juncher Waedegaard -- 13 The Mediatisation of Ministries of Foreign Affairs: Diplomacy in the New Media Ecology / Ilan Manor and Rhys Crilley -- 14 From Delhi to Dili: Facebook Diplomacy by Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the Asia-Pacific / Damien Spry -- Part 4: Researching and Theorising mfa s -- 15 Approaching Ministries of Foreign Affairs through Ethnographic Work / Iver B. Neumann -- 16 Diplomacy in the Rearview Mirror: Implications of Face-to-Face Diplomacy Ritual Disruption for Ministries of Foreign Affairs / Marcus Holmes -- 17 Distributed Agency: Foreign Policy sans MFA / Jason Dittmer -- 18 The Site of Foreign Policy: A Field Theory Account of Ministries of Foreign Affairs / Thierry Balzacq -- Index.

Ministries of foreign affairs are prominent institutions at the heart of state diplomacy. Although they have lost their monopoly on the making of national foreign policies, they still are the operators of key practices associated with diplomacy: communication, representation and negotiation. Often studied in a monographic way, ministries of foreign affairs are undergoing an adaptation of their practices that require a global approach. This book fills a gap in the literature by approaching ministries of foreign affairs in a comparative and comprehensive way. The best international specialists in the field provide methodological and theoretical insights into how best to study institutions that remain crucial for the world diplomacy. Contributors are: Thierry Balzacq, Guillaume Beaud, Gabriel Castillo, Andrew Cooper, Rhys Crilley, Jason Dittmer, Mikael Ekman, Bruno Figueroa, Karla Gobo, Minda Holm, Marcus Holmes, Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, Nikolaj Juncher Waedegaard, Casper Klynge, Halvard Leira, Christian Lequesne, Ilan Manor, Jan Melissen, Iver B. Neumann, Birgitta Niklasson, Kim B. Olsen, Pierre-Bruno Ruffini, Claudia Santos, Jorge A. Schiavon, Damien Spry, Kamna Tiwary, Geoffrey Wiseman, and Reuben Wong.

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