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Examining the histories, development and contemporary practices of diplomatic training, this edited collection places training centrally within our understanding of international relations. It offe...
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Despite the essential role diplomatic training plays in the everyday workings of international relations, international law and in the various multilateral organisations, this practice has received little critical attention in the humanities, social and political sciences. Bringing together detailed accounts of the histories, development and contemporary practices of diplomatic training with insights from key practitioners, this edited collection places training centrally within our understanding of international relations. It argues that diplomatic training both reflects and reproduces hegemonic power relations, whilst at the same time offering opportunities to contest them, and imagine alternative futures. The book includes a substantive introduction, nine full-length chapters from a range of disciplinary and regional perspectives drawing on archival research, oral history, interviews, and ethnographic methods, and four ‘interventions’: reflection pieces from trainers and directors of training programmes. It offers a globe-spanning, interdisciplinary account of the politics of diplomatic training and appeals to both scholarly and practitioner audiences.
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Price: £95.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Key Studies in Diplomacy
Publication Date: 10 February 2026
ISBN: 9781526188762
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International relations, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, HISTORY / Modern / General, Diplomacy, History
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Introduction: Theorising diplomatic training - Ruth Craggs, Jonathan Harris and Fiona McConnell
Part I: Diplomatic training in the context of evolving geopolitics
1 Learning internationalism: constructing identity through diplomatic training - Geoffrey Wiseman & Yolanda Spies
2 Remembering diplomatic training in Africa, 1976-1990 - Guy Martin
3 Rethinking Diplomatic Training: Adapting to a Changing World - Ron Ton
4 Sites and Spaces in Diplomatic Training in Kenya: The Case of the Department of Diplomacy and International Studies, University of Nairobi - Patrick Maluki and Rebecca Sangura
5 From Art to Academia: Diplomacy in UK Higher Education - Lesley Masters & Helen Drake
6 Historical Evolutions of Diplomatic Training in Iran: Diplomatic Continuities amidst Domestic Changes and Global Transformations - Alireza Shams Lahijani & Nasrin Mosaffa
7 Clingendael Academy: Shaping Diplomacy in South Africa’s Transformative Years - Ron Ton
Part II: The pedagogies and politics of diplomatic training
8 Becoming a Diplomat: The history and present of diplomatic training in Norway - Øyvind Svendsen & Halvard Leira
9 Ethnic Diplomats and Failed Inclusion in Ecuador - María Moreno and Fernando Garcia
10 Brazil’s next generation of Indigenous diplomats - Cibele Reschke de Borba Bengtson
11 The politics of international diplomatic training: Representation and socialisation in programmes for diplomats from the Balkans - Tobias Wille
12 Training ‘Unrepresented Diplomats’ - Mercè Monje Cano and Fiona McConnell
13 The pedagogy of defence diplomacy: tensions and themes in the training of British defence attachés - An Jacobs and Tim Archer
14 Diplomatic training in Eritrea: dignity, respect and the international sphere - Stephen Chan
15 Postcolonial diplomatic fictions and/as diplomatic training - Sam Okoth Opondo