The value of diplomatic history in a changing world

I dette kapittelet argumenter jeg for at diplomatisk historie kan gi oss verdifulle innsikter i en omskiftelig tid. Den gir ikke utvetydige og enkle lærdommer og analogier, men påminner oss om usikkerhet og mulighetene for ulike utviklingsbaner.

The Intercity Origins of Diplomacy: Consuls, Empires, and the Sea

Bydiplomati er et ganske nytt tema i studiet av diplomati, og mange vil hevde, et ganske nylig empirisk fenomen. En kontrast til dette kan gjøres være å peke på hvordan den påståtte opprinnelsen til diplomati i gresk antikk var bysentrert, på samme måte som de tidligste formene for renessansediplomati...

Afterword: Gendering the Brand

En potensielt produktiv tilnærming til debattene om nation-branding og offentlig diplomati er å betrakte dem begge underordnet de bredere motivasjonene status, prestisje og omdømme. På den ene siden understreker en slik tilnærming hvordan innenrikspolitikk kan forme status-søking og hvordan den innenlandske...

Inter-governmentality: A framework for analysis

Dette kapittelet utforsker den analytiske verdien av "governmentality" når det brukes på interaksjoner mellom politiske enheter før tidlig nytid, det jeg refererer til som "inter-governmentality". Med utgangspunkt i forutsetningene om at (1) governmetality (historisk forstått) alltid...

Hva er Internasjonal Politikk

Begrepet internasjonal politikk brukes både om hendelser og prosesser i verden rundt oss - og om studiet av disse. Faget dekker åpenbare temaer som krig, handel og diplomati, men det tar også for seg mer hverdagslige fenomener som turisme, innvandring og hvordan enkeltindivider påvirkes av globaliseringen. Denne...

Utenrikspolitikkens opprinnelse

I denne boka tar Halvard Leira for seg hvordan norsk utenrikspolitikk oppsto. Han viser at utenrikspolitikk er et forholdsvis nytt fenomen og mener opprinnelsen må søkes i spenningsfeltet mellom kongemakt og folkemakt i andre halvdel av 1800-tallet. Måten dette skjedde på i Norge på slutten av 1800-tallet,...

Making foreign policy foreign

A Conceptual History of International Relations

Forelesningen handlet om behovet for en begrepshistorie om internasjonal politikk, og hvordan den kan skrives.

Ethnic Diversity in the Recruitment of Diplomats: Why MFAs Take the Issue Seriously

Diversity and its management have become an issue in all organisations. Ministries of foreign affairs (MFAs) do not escape the issue. In the 2000s, states decided to consider more ethnic diversity in the recruitment of their diplomats. In some countries, this new goal requires affirmative action programs....

Stubbornly Stumbling into Making History: Constructivism and Historical International Relations

The aim of this chapter is threefold; first we try to recollect through the hazy dim of personal history and histories how we eventually became the researchers we are today. Second, we focus on what to us at the time – and, to some extent, still – appeared as contingent, random and haphazard experiences...

The Duty of Care in International Relations Protecting Citizens Beyond the Border

This book offers a first overarching look at the relationship between states and their citizens abroad, approached through the concept 'Duty of Care'. How can society best be protected, when increasing numbers of citizens are found outside the borders of the state? What are the limits to care...

Introduction: The Duty of Care in International Relations

In this introduction, we lay out the premises, logics and content of the book in more detail. In the next section, we introduce a varied set of current international challenges concerning the relationship between states and citizens. In the third section, we present the historical background for why...

The emergence of foreign policy

International relations scholarship typically treats foreign policy as a taken-for-granted analytical concept. It assumes either that all historical polities have foreign policies or that foreign policy originates in seventeenth-century Europe with the separation between the “inside” and “outside”...

Kinship diplomacy, or diplomats of a kin

Familiarity breeds contempt, or so the idiom goes, and historically there are ample examples of how family-ties and blood kinship have not fostered peaceful cooperation. By contrast, metaphorical kinship has been seen to grease the wheels of diplomacy, creating and sustaining ties between different polities...

The Function of Myths in International Relations: Discipline and Identity

Myths, understood as forms of narrative, providing meaning and significance, are an inescapable part of the life of human collectives. Thus, myths are central to any academic discipline. They tell us who we are and what we should be concerned with, and provide blueprints for arguments about policy choices....

Utenrikspolitikk - en begrepshistorie

Artikkelen tar opp spørsmålet om når Norge fikk en egen utenrikspolitikk, og gir svar gjennom en begrepshistorisk analyse. Tidligere forslag har vært middelalderen, med etableringen av relasjoner mellom norske konger og andre konger, slutten av 1700-tallet, med etableringen av et eget departement i København...

Old diplomacy

Old diplomacy is a term which has been used both politically and analytically since the French Revolution. Politically, it emerged as a term of abuse, used to criticize all which had been wrong with interstate interaction before 1789, in particular secrecy, duplicity, and the reliance on aristocracy....

New Diplomacy

New diplomacy is a term which has been used both politically and analytically since the French Revolution. It was introduced as a positive contrast to the old diplomacy of kings and intrigues, and was concerned primarily with trade. Such a liberal understanding has remained predominant – new diplomacy...

Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking

We develop scholarship on status in international politics by focusing on the social dimension of small and middle power status politics. This vantage opens a new window on the widely-discussed strategies social actors may use to maintain and enhance their status, showing how social creativity, mobility,...

Caring and Carers: Diplomatic Personnel and the Duty of Care

This article deals with the duty of care that states hold in relation to their citizens abroad — more specifically, the double role of diplomatic personnel, as both providers and recipients of care. The focus of discussion is states’ duty of care for diplomatic personnel, raising questions of how this...