This book is a comprehensive overview of the theory, history, law, institutional framework and culture of global diplomacy. It reflects on the key existential challenges to the institution and addresses aspects that are often overlooked in diplomatic studies: inter alia diplomatic law, development-driven diplomacy and the bureaucracy of diplomatic practice. All chapters are extensively illustrated with recent case examples from across the world. Special emphasis is placed on incorporating perspectives from Africa and other developing regions in the Global South, so as to balance the Eurocentrism of traditional diplomatic literature. Yolanda Kemp Spies is Senior Research Fellow with the Chair in African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
When the Soviet Union withdrew recently from the World Health Organization, a somewhat startled world learned that even the prevention of disease can be affected by world politics. The most cursory study of international organizations for other purposes discloses that none is immune to world social and political forces. On the contrary, they are in varying degree shaped and influenced by these forces, and in fact serve as vehicles for their expression.
This document contains Table of Contents and Preface. ; Throughout his illustrious career as an international statesman, Prof. de Marco will always be remembered for his extraordinary devotion and conviction when it came to Championing Issues pertaining to the Mediterranean. As, President of the 45th General Assembly of the United Nations, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta, a Signator of the Barcelona Declaration in November 1995 and President of Malta, Prof de Marco relentlessly highlighted the importance of prioritizing the link between European politics and Mediterranean relations, a Euro-Mediterranean relationship that should be built on three essential commonalities, common interest, common concerns, and common heritage. ; N/A
International relations research has regarded networks as a particular mode of organization, distinguished from markets or state hierarchies. In contrast, network analysis permits the investigation and measurement of network structures—emergent properties of persistent patterns of relations among agents that can define, enable, and constrain those agents. Network analysis offers both a toolkit for identifying and measuring the structural properties of networks and a set of theories, typically drawn from contexts outside international relations, that relate structures to outcomes. Network analysis challenges conventional views of power in international relations by defining network power in three different ways: access, brokerage, and exit options. Two issues are particularly important to international relations: the ability of actors to increase their power by enhancing and exploiting their network positions, and the fungibility of network power. The value of network analysis in international relations has been demonstrated in precise description of international networks, investigation of network effects on key international outcomes, testing of existing network theory in the context of international relations, and development of new sources of data. Partial or faulty incorporation of network analysis, however, risks trivial conclusions, unproven assertions, and measures without meaning. A three-part agenda is proposed for future application of network analysis to international relations: import the toolkit to deepen research on international networks; test existing network theories in the domain of international relations; and test international relations theories using the tools of network analysis.
"Zahlreiche internationale Staatenorganisationen haben sich in den letzten Jahren des Themas Menschenhandel angenommen. Sie erheben alle den Anspruch, die Menschenrechte zu schützen. Tatsächlich aber ist der politische Diskurs über Menschenhandel vor allem von kriminologischem Denken geprägt und dreht sich um die Stärkung und Verteidigung nationalstaatlicher bzw. supranationaler Grenzen. Damit wird weder den von Menschenhandel betroffenen Menschen geholfen noch werden die strukturellen Ursachen bekämpft." (Autorenreferat)
