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Thinking with Diplomacy

Within and Beyond Practice Theory

Bibliographic Data

ID2236622
AuthorsCostas M Constantinou (0000-0002-0049-9249, University of Cyprus, corresponding author), Jason Dittmer (0000-0002-1022-4978, University College London), Merje Kuus (0000-0002-3506-8131, University of British Columbia), Fiona Mcconnell (0000-0002-3841-4263, University of Oxford), Sam Okoth Opondo (0009-0003-5874-3923, Vassar College), Vincent Pouliot (0000-0002-1820-5376, McGill University)
Year2021
Volume15
Issue4
Pages559-587
Publication date2021-11-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ips/olab028
OpenAlexW3204589055
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited110

Following the considerable interest in practice theory, this Collective Discussion interrogates what it means to practice and, ultimately, to think with diplomacy. In asking how empirical, methodological, and axiological disagreements over what constitutes diplomatic practice can be productively employed to develop or revise practice theory, the Discussion engages the historically and culturally contingent practices of diplomacy. In doing so, it goes beyond the conventional interactions that assume a fixed and singular identity for diplomacy. The Discussion aims, on the one hand, to pluralize the notion of diplomatic practice, and, on the other, to reflexively retrieve 'theory' from the everyday and alternative practices of diplomacy that are often missed by the radar of practice theory. It thus seeks to reassess practice theory using insights from the very terrain of action it employs to develop its distinctive viewpoint. The Discussion contributes, moreover, to the rapidly changing field of Diplomatic Studies that has recently opened up to cross- and trans-disciplinary conversations with political geography, social anthropology, digital studies, visual studies, and new materialism

Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Diplomacy · Discipline · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Identity (music) · Materialism · Political science · Politics · Practice theory · Social practice · Social science · Sociology · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Law · Military History and Strategy · Peacebuilding and International Security

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