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After the Cold War
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ISBN: 0674008642 0674008634 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press


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Transformational diplomacy.
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ISSN: 10177566 ISBN: 9789291981144 9291981141 Year: 2007 Volume: no. 103 Publisher: Paris Institute for Security Studies

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The attacks of September 11 2001 spectacularly demonstrated that America’s main security challenges did not stem from traditional power rivalries but rather from ‘grey areas’, failed or badly governed states which are breeding grounds for extremism. Today the emphasis has shifted from focusing on relations between states to acting directly on states themselves, so as to pre-empt the growth of terrorism, arms proliferation, genocide, civil wars etc. After the concept of the ‘global war on terror’, President George W. Bush put forward his ‘freedom agenda’ aiming to promote democracy as a response to the security challenges facing the world, in particular in the Middle East. But overthrowing tyrants and holding elections is not enough to create a stable and well-governed democracy and can even, in some cases, complicate matters, as events between 2003 and 2005 in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian Authority and Egypt have shown. This is where ‘transformational diplomacy’, the concept inaug-urated by Condoleezza Rice in early 2006, comes in. Basically this consists in working with the partners of the United States with a view to ‘build and sustain democratic, well-governed states that will respond to the needs of their people and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system.’ To enable this to happen, it is first of all American diplomacy which must transform itself, so as to become less ‘analytical’ and more operational, characterised by direct involvement in foreign societies rather than just being restricted to the realm of foreign policy. This Chaillot Paper explores the scope and limits of this ‘transformative’ action: is the realist paradigm, that of interpower rivalries, really no longer relevant ? Can diplomats transform themselves into active promoters of good governance ? Are other countries ready to accept them in this role, or will they accuse them of interference ? Can transformational diplomacy really change the world ?


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Global powers in the 21st century : strategies and relations.
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ISBN: 9780262622189 0262622181 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge MIT press


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The diplomatic system of the European Union : evolution, change and challenges
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ISBN: 9780415732284 041573228X 9781315726342 9781317536628 9781317536635 9781138716728 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

The european diplomatic corps : diplomats and international cooperation from Westphalia to Maastricht
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ISBN: 9780230500754 0230500757 Year: 2006 Publisher: Houndmills ; New York Palgrave Macmillan

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Are diplomats agents of international co-operation or transmission belts for states? Traditional theories of international relations seriously underestimate the ability of diplomats as a collective to impact outcomes in the international environment beyond initial state preferences. 'The European Diplomatic Corps' argues that diplomats comprise a transnational network of experts or 'epistemic community' which has been critical in determining co-operation or non-co-operation among European states. The cases considered are the congresses of Westphalia (1648), Berlin (1878), Paris (1919) and Maastricht (1992).

Opportunities missed, opportunities seized : preventive diplomacy in the post-Cold War world
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ISBN: 0847685594 Year: 1999 Volume: *2 Publisher: Lanham, Md. New York Oxford Rowman & Littlefield

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