22 November 2022

Practices of Public Diplomacy, 1500-2020

The 2021 Gordon Cain Conference focuses on the fascinating interplay of science, technology, and international affairs after the Second World War. By doing so, it marks the emergence of diplomatic studies of science as a field at the intersection of science and technology studies, history of science, diplomatic history, and international politics. The Science History Institute and Gordon Cain Conference fellow Maria Rentetzi invite contributions that explore the ways science and diplomacy have been coproduced throughout the second half of the 20th century to the present.

To submit a paper to the 2021 Cain Conference, please send a 250-word abstract and a two-page CV to cainconference2021@sciencehistory.org. The deadline for submissions is June 13, 2021. Decisions will be made by July 7, 2021.

Travel and accommodation subsidies will be available to contributors.

Following the conference, contributors may submit draft manuscripts of approximately 5,000 words for publication in an edited volume.

17 May 2021

Languages of Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century World

International conference

Moscow, January 13-14, 2022

German Historical Institute in Moscow

With the support from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation

Eighteenth-century diplomacy adopted French as its main professional language, moving away from Latin and German. However, we know little about the pace and the mechanisms of and the reasons for this global linguistic shift. For example, linguistic practices of nobility influenced the choice of languages in diplomacy. Indeed, major posts in diplomacy were at the time occupied by aristocrats who embraced a model of education where the ability to socialize in French played a central role, while Latin gradually ceased to be an important part of curricula in the education of nobility. We propose to explore this change through case studies focused on the polities that were the leading players in international politics of that period and for many of whom languages were an important element of their identity and  political agenda: France, the Habsburg monarchy, the Russian Empire, Great Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, and, towards the end of the period, the USA. Studies on other countries and language communities are welcome as well. We are inviting submissions of papers presenting the results of original research on this topic, including, but not limited to, the following aspects:

• the choice of languages in various genres and types of communication among diplomats;
• new trends in language use and persistence in some geographic areas of traditional languages of diplomacy (Latin, German, Spanish);
• normative prescriptions and official policies regarding language use;
• new trends in sociability among diplomats and the use of languages by them in non-professional settings;
• teaching languages to future diplomats and translators in diplomatic services, in formal and informal settings;
• translation and the formation of diplomatic terminology;
• language lobbying in negotiations, preparation of diplomatic treaties and other diplomatic documents, etc.

Specialists in various disciplines such as historical sociolinguistics and social history of languages, new diplomatic history, history of education and of sociability are welcome to submit their proposals. The period under consideration is the “long” eighteenth century stretching from the middle of the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.

Proposals (including title, name and affiliation of the participant, abstract of about 200 words) should be submitted to: vladislav.rjeoutski@dhi-moskau.org  The deadline for proposal submission is September 15, 2021. Prospective participants will be notified about acceptance or rejection of their proposals by the end of September, 2021.

Depending on the situation with COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, the conference will be held online or in a mixed offline/online format. The organizers might be able to offer financial and visa support for the participants travelling to Moscow.

Working languages of the conference are English and Russian (working languages can be modified depending on the languages of the proposals submitted).

14 September 2020

Diplomacy between Crisis and Cooperation

Fourth Conference of the New Diplomatic History Network

26-28 May 2021

Aarhus University

School of Culture and Society

Denmark

Speakers

Tracey Sowerby: Diplomacy in an Age of Religious Crisis

Rebecca Adler-Nissen: International Negotiations in the Age of Covid-19

The New Diplomatic History network focuses broadly on the historical study of diplomats, their methods, and their cultural, political and social networks, sites, and milieux. New diplomatic history involves the study of individuals and groups who perform diplomatic roles (but who have so far often been ignored), and the use of perspectives and methodologies from across the social sciences to bring their significance into focus. The network reasserts diplomatic actors as important subjects of historical study and encourages innovations in the understanding of evolving international society.

In the context of globalization, diplomacy has become a complex field of activity involving a host of state and non-state actors at multiple levels and forms of global, regional, and local governance. While the nation-state continues to function as the cornerstone of international order, an increasingly crowded environment has forced adaptations and alterations to all levels of diplomatic practice. New levels of complexity have now been added to this picture, as existing forms of international order have been disrupted by major economic, ecological and health crises, while zero-sum geopolitics and the rhetoric of putting the national interest “first” are firmly back on the international agenda.

At this moment, therefore, it seems pertinent to explore how diplomacy and diplomats have been shaped by and contributed to the development of international orders and connections as well as crises and conflicts across history. How have institutional frameworks altered the poise of diplomacy? How have diplomats juggled tensions between obedience to their state, professional norms and personal moral beliefs in times of crisis? What are the precedents for the condition of diplomacy in the early 21^st century?

As the main meeting point for the New Diplomatic History network, this conference aims to bring together scholars working on diplomacy from different historical periods and from different disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. It links the study of diplomacy across the early modern, modern and post-modern eras, and tests the application of investigative concepts across space and time, inviting comparisons across both geographical regions and historical periods.

All proposals exploring the study of diplomacy from historical, theoretical, emotional, sensory, artistic, spatial and temporal perspectives are welcome. Please send a draft title and 500-word (max.) synopsis to NewDH4@cas.au.dk

Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2020

Conference fee: 130 euro (covers lunch, coffee, tea and conference dinner)

 Note on COVID-19: We want to go ahead with our conference as originally planned. However, due to ongoing uncertainties regarding COVID-19, the conference organizers will decide in January 2021 whether to continue with an on-location conference, whether to go digital or postpone the conference till May 2022. Everyone will be informed of the decision at that point. No fees are payable before a decision has been reached. Thank you for your patience! Should the conference be postponed till 2022, all paper submissions will be carried over to the new date and all participants will have the opportunity to update/adapt/cancel their participation.

13 September 2020

Public Health and Disease in the American Century

Roosevelt Institute for American Studies

Middelburg, The Netherlands

21-22 October 2021

The COVID-19 crisis has confronted historians with the disruptive power of infectious disease. The impact of the crisis has been multifaceted, global, and immense in its scale and ramifications. For the United States, the experience has been especially confrontational. As of the time of writing, the US has among the highest rates of infection and the highest number of deaths of any country on the planet. The virus (and the measures taken to contain it) has disrupted almost every aspect of American life, revealed and exacerbated social, economic, racial and political fault lines, and raised major constitutional issues concerning the role of federal and state authorities in maintaining social well-being.

This public health emergency has also set in motion an as yet uncertain set of consequences for the US’s position in the world.  President Donald Trump has increased his criticisms of China as the source of the pandemic, and his decision to withdraw funding from the WHO was also an act to push back against Beijing’s controlling influence in that organization. Yet these steps also represent a blatantly nationalist shift, where the former role of the US in bolstering world order through multilateral institutions is being replaced by a boisterous chauvinism. The role of the federal government, both domestically and internationally, in taking responsibility for public health has come into question.

Historically, this is a pivotal moment. The arrival of the ‘American century’ at the end of the Second World War (for which the seventy-fifth anniversary celebrations have been disrupted by the pandemic) also heralded the end of global disease – a view exemplified by Secretary of State George Marshall’s 1948 prediction that the majority of infectious diseases would be eradicated within the twentieth century. Advancements in medical science, harnessed to US economic and military power, produced significant achievements in global public health – from the invention of the polio vaccine to the eradication of smallpox and the utilization of the calorie as a basic unit of nutrition. Yet the prospect of an epidemic-free world has proved illusory. Indeed, disease has made a comeback since the 1970s, as previously unknown afflictions, from HIV to Ebola and COVID-19, moved to exploit the connections, as well as the iniquities, of a globalizing world.

This conference seeks to interrogate the American Century through the lens of the US government’s responsibility for improving public health and fighting disease. It takes a broad, parabolic view of the 20^th century, book-ending both domestic (the local responses to containing the Spanish flu outbreaks in 1918-1920 and the federal-state contest for control in 2020) and international developments (the Wilsonian blueprint for world order after WWI and the Trumpian abandonment of the WHO in 2020). How does the subject of public health, both domestically and internationally, change our understanding of the American Century and where we are now in 2020/2021?

We welcome conference papers on any of the following subjects:

• Disease and US foreign policy – disease and development aid, military intervention, and as a national security threat;
• The US, internationalism, and global public health;
• The role of government and non-government organizations in public health and the shifting lines of responsibility
• The connections between public health, socio-economic and racial inequalities, and political action
• Cultural, literary, and artistic reflections on disease, social (dis)order, and public health

If you would like to join us as a speaker at this event, please send a CV and 250-word proposal to info@roosevelt.nl.

The deadline for proposals is 1 December 2020.

All proposals will receive a reply by 31 January 2021.

The conference will be based on pre-circulated papers. Participants will be asked to prepare and send in a draft paper of 3000 words by 1 September 2021.

We hope to be able to hold the conference on location at the Institute. Of course, should this prove impossible or unwise, we will consider either postponing or switching to some form of online format.

11 August 2020

24 June 2020

A World of Realms: A Long View of Diplomacy and Spatiality in the
Premodern Islamic World.
University of Antwerp – Belgium, May 20-21, 2021
Keynote speaker: Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA/Collège de France)

Power in History: Centre for Political History invites papers that inquire into the spatial dimensions of diplomacy and their relation to conceptions of territoriality in the larger Islamic world, from the 7th to the early 19th century, as part of a two-day interdisciplinary workshop held at the University of Antwerp and hosted by the History Department on May 20-21, 2021.

Deadline for abstracts: August 15, 2020.

Debates on the nature of the sovereign state as a territorially defined political entity are closely linked to discussions of “modernity” and to the development of the field of International Relations. While scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds have long questioned when and how conceptions of the “territorial state” emerged, rarely have they ventured outside the European context. A closer look at the premodern Islamic world, however, shows that “space” and “territoriality” mattered a great deal, informed interstate contacts and influenced the conduct and evolution of diplomacy. This is clear not only from one of the key concepts in Islamic law of a world divided in two dārs (‘territories’) – dār al-Islām and dār al-ḥarb –, but also from early developments in human and administrative
geography, and, more broadly, from those variegated formal texts participating in the “discourse of place.” In these conceptions, space, real or imagined, carried great significance.

Since the collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate, if not earlier, ruling elites and intellectuals in the Islamic world recognized a collectivity of entities or realms (mamālik) that appear to have been territorially defined. Administrative manuals and diplomatic sources insist on a range of basic rules of respect for borders (however defined), security and immunities for emissaries (and traveling scholars, merchants and pilgrims), thus pointing to the importance attached to delineating and defining territory.

Furthermore, possession of territory granted status to rulers and therefore appears as a prerequisite of the establishment of diplomatic contact, and this independently of any supposedly fixed norms of who was/could be  considered ‘sovereign’ or not.

As both territoriality and diplomacy remain little studied in the context of the larger Islamic world, from the beginnings of Islam up to the early 1800s, this workshop invites papers that examine their connections from a spatial perspective. “Space” is key to understanding diplomacy in both a ‘high political’ sense – rulers formally recognizing one another (or not) and the making (and dissolution) of alliances – and as a practice through the dispatching or exchange of envoys. It operates on the premise that distinct entities exist and must be able to continue to exist alongside each other. Moreover, interpersonal diplomatic encounters, be they highly ritualized or informal, are always place-specific. The various qualities and functions of these (staged) sites may change over time, as do the social profiles of the actors who can enter and endow them with (new) meanings. Scholars have often emphasized the importance of asking who is allowed or barred access to the spaces of diplomacy and raised important questions as to the nature of power and domination. These questions, in turn, go to the heart of older but key issues in the historical scholarship on state-building and state-public relations.

In a world as mobile as the Islamic world, how did diplomatic practices take shape and, indeed, what meanings were ascribed to “territory” by rulers, administrators and the envoys who moved back and forth between different courts? We welcome papers dealing with the many spatial dimensions of interstate contact and particularly seek contributions that critically engage with one or more of the following themes:

– Conceptions of material space: what defined a territory and in which terminologies were they scripted (center vs frontier, city vs ‘hinterland,’ or geographic vs legal space)?

– Territory as spaces embedded in larger relational webs of territories (and related notions of boundary-making, ‘types’ of territories, shifting notions of
‘extraterritoriality’ or sovereignty)

– Perceptions and (metaphoric) representations of space (and how they changed through diplomatic contact): in cartography, manuscript illumination, prose, art, and architecture

– Imaginative space: the relevance of historical, mythical, metaphorical space

– Papers building on Lefebvre’s seminal works on the social production of space and its relation with ‘class’ domination and struggle

– The various and evolving ‘settings’ of diplomatic encounter: near borders (for the exchange of prisoners), at sea, in ‘neutral’ places, in seats of power (palaces, frontier fortresses)

– Ritual places (shrines, mosques, burial places) and their often contested significance in interstate dealings

We welcome contributions by historians, art historians, literary scholars, political scientists, anthropologists, archeologists, archivists, and philologists on any subject that falls in the period between the 7th to the early 19th century, when Muslim polities increasingly reverted to resident diplomacy. We prefer papers that depart from the perspective of Muslim states (and draw on the sources they left behind) and investigate their interactions with either Muslim or non-Muslim polities (or both). Along with contributions on the various major Islamic states in the Maghreb, Western and Central Africa, Middle East, Europe, and Central, South and Southeast Asia – including, but not limited to the Umayyads, Abbasids, Nasrids, Mongols, Mamluks, Hafsids, Mandinkas (Mali Empire), Kanembus (Bornu Empire), Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals – we also encourage papers on pastoral nomad and peripheral groups and their interactions with Muslim polities.

The organizers will be able to cover part of the expenses of participants. An exception can be made for those whose institution does not provide any allowance for conference participation. As papers (in English and max. 8000 words) will be pre-circulated, selected speakers will have to submit their draft papers no later than mid-April 2021. They also commit to revise their papers for future inclusion in a peer-reviewed collective publication.

Submissions for papers should include: name, main affiliation, paper title, abstract (max. 250 words) and a short bio (max. 50 words).

Deadline: please send all proposals to malika.dekkiche@uantwerp.be and houssine.alloul@uantwerp.be no later than August 15, 2020.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by late August 2020.

27 January 2020

Internationalism(s) and Education during the Cold War.

Actors, Rivalries and Circulations

International Conference
University of Lausanne
June 24-25, 2021

Organized by Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz (University of Lausanne) and Damiano Matasci

(University of Geneva)

Deadline: September 15, 2020: Please send proposals to the following addresses: Raphaelle.RuppenCoutaz@unil.ch, Damiano.Matasci@unige.ch Abstracts (300 words max. in word or pdf files) will include a title, a specific issue, a bibliography (5 references max.) and a short bio-bibliographic notice (15 lines max.).

Details in the attached pdf: Geneva 2021

10 December 2019

Diplomacy and the Natural Environment
(Diplomatica special issue)
deadline for submissions: 15 February 2020

For this special issue of Diplomatica we invite proposals for essays on aspects of diplomacy’s relationship to the natural environment. Essays may cover any historical period up to the present-day. The central questions that this special issue poses are:

How does the natural environment condition, cause, or complicate diplomatic action?

How does diplomacy affect relations between humanity and nature?

How has ‘nature’ been used in theory and in practice to further or cast into question diplomatic relations?

Possible topics include:

– Plant, animal, and mineral specimens as objects and/or subjects of diplomatic exchange;

– The relationship of concepts and/or metaphors of natural order, the state of nature, etc. to diplomacy;

– Negotiations relating to the environment, climate change, conservation, etc.;

– Visual, literary, musical, and cinematic depictions of nature in diplomatic contexts;

Please send expressions of interest, or abstracts of 500 words and a brief bio-note to the issue editors, newdiplo@gmail.com by 15 February 2020. Please quote ‘Diplomacy and the Natural Environment’ in the subject line.

Notification of acceptance will be no later than 15 March 2020. If accepted, full essays (of 7000 to 9000 words) will be due by 15 January 2021.

Review-essays and interviews pertinent to the special issue are also very welcome. Please contact the journal editors with any questions.

10 December 2019

Scandinavian Internationalist Diplomacy, 1920s-1970s

Call for Papers for three workshops at the University of Copenhagen (27-29 May 2020), Södertörn University (September 2020) and the University of Oslo (January 2021)

The Scandinavian countries are often seen as being among the most consistent promoters of internationalist solutions to global challenges and can boast some of the most renowned internationalist figures of the 20th Century. Scandinavia, moreover, sees itself, and is often recognized, as a region representing and promoting a certain set of values (such as democracy, social equality and progressive ideals on rights) on the international stage. While there are truths in these stereotypes, the role and reputation of Scandinavian international politics developed in a complex symbiosis between the rise of international organizations (IOs) and professionalization of foreign services (as part of the construction of the modern state) from the turn of the last century onwards. There is a large body of literature on how the various (non-state) internationalist strands developing from the late 1800s onwards were absorbed into the corporatist structures of the Scandinavian post-war welfare state. However, very little research exists, that (a) studies Scandinavian internationalism as a transnational historical phenomenon, (b) that is intrinsically linked to the rise of IOs and (c) is rooted in expanding diplomatic practices.

This workshop trilogy (see descriptions of workshops below) brings these elements together in a systematic fashion, to study the emergence of Scandinavian internationalist diplomacy between the 1920s and the 1970s. By centring on a wider conception of diplomatic institutions, actors and practices and positioning Scandinavia within the new literature on internationalisms and international organizations, the workshop series aims to:

1) Critically analyse the established narrative of a distinct Scandinavian internationalism by exploring it as part of new diplomatic practices within the new ‘space’ between international organizations, national foreign services and new diplomatic actors.

2) Study Scandinavian internationalism as evidenced in diplomatic practices and exploring it as a distinct realization of national interests – neither a priori benign nor malign – in its transnational context.

3) By building on a broad definition of what constitutes diplomacy, the workshop series connects what is often studied separately: state-driven, traditional diplomacy and the internationalist endeavours of non-state actors (from single individuals and groups of activists via civil society organizations to key corporations).

4) Offer a new, comprehensive chronology of Scandinavian internationalist diplomacy, and to critically interpret this within the broader and later more dominant Nordic conceptualization of internationalism.

Keynotes may be found here:

https://cemes.ku.dk/activities/2020/nordic-diplomatic-demeanour-at-the-league-of-nations-and-united-nations/

https://cemes.ku.dk/activities/2020/internationalism-diplomacy-and-the-end-of-the-international-order/

Guide for participants:

Prospective participants are invited to submit an abstract (400 words) to the organizers of the relevant workshop no later than 1 February 2020.

Workshop 1: Haakon A. Ikonomou: ikonomou@hum.ku.dk

Workshop 2: Andreas Hellenes: amh@cas.au.dk

Workshop 3: Sunniva Engh: sunniva.engh@iakh.uio.no

Selected participants will be expected to submit their full papers (minimum 4000 words) to the relevant workshop organizers for pre-circulation two weeks prior to the relevant workshop.

Workshop 1: Scandinavian Multilateral Diplomacy: from the League of Nations to post-war IOs

27-29 May 2020, University of Copenhagen
Organizers: Haakon A. Ikonomou and Rasmus S. Søndergaard

Over the last hundred years, diplomacy has become increasingly nested in multiple IOs, from the League of Nations, via the United Nations and several economic and security organizations after the Second World War, to the European Union. This development has profoundly shaped how states do foreign politics and, arguably, how they articulate their very interests. The impact has been particularly drastic for small states, such as the Scandinavian. Indeed, the bureaucratic professionalization of Scandinavian diplomacy was driven not only with the formalization of the modern state apparatus but found its shape and purpose within an expanding international and regional space. With the rise of international organizations, small states found new multilateral forums in which to articulate and pursue interests, alliances and brands. This workshop will explore how the ‘vertical’ transnational space between national foreign services and international organizations shaped Scandinavian multilateral diplomacy. Within this scope, the workshop, in particular, welcomes papers on:

• Administrative reforms, codes of conducts and recruitment patterns of Scandinavian foreign services as part of a global circulation of knowledge, expertise and imaginations of efficiency, power and modernity
• Patterns of exchange in personnel between Scandinavian foreign services and IOs
• Specific transnational spaces of multilateral diplomacy, including cooperation between Scandinavian diplomats and foreign services within IOs
• The role of the Nordic model(s) in Scandinavian multilateral diplomacy
• Critical examinations of the origin and promotion of the Scandinavian brand as global good Samaritans committed to peace, solidarity and human rights

Workshop 2: Scandinavian Public Diplomacies Beyond State Actors

September 2020, Södertörn University (exact dates to TBD)
Organizers: Carl Marklund and Andreas Hellenes

The first post-war decade saw the earliest institutionalisation of Scandinavian public diplomacy, although roots stretch back to the interwar years. The new institutions relied on the assistance of other actors representing the mainstream internationalism of cultural relations and international trade, as well as the Scandinavian popular movements. These internationalisms not only co-existed with the state-administered public diplomacy but were co-constitutive on an organisational level and entangled in the activities pursued by the states abroad. The interface and exchange between different forms of diplomacy – traditional, public, economic, military, social and citizen diplomacy – are understudied at present. We wish to address the spectrum of divergent diplomatic practices in the plural – public diplomacies – by specifically investigating the state-civil society nexus in Scandinavia and beyond. This nexus was not least a result of the small size of the national elites; personal contacts and networks were easily transplanted from the national to the international level. This workshop will explore how the emergence of the international field allowed for a variety of methods and multi-positionalities for Scandinavian diplomatic entrepreneurs, sometimes acting in their own name, sometimes in the name of the state, and often in interplay between the two. The workshop sets out to go beyond the study of statist public diplomatic action and expand the notion of the public diplomat to involve non-governmental actors, movements and corporations. We therefore welcome papers that study for example:

• The organisation and institutionalisation of Scandinavian public diplomacies as contested fields between political, economic and cultural national interests and internationalist ideas of cooperation and exchange
• Scandinavian cooperation in joint public diplomacy efforts in international sites – agendas, arenas, events and organisations
• The role of the Scandinavian popular movements in spearheading internationalist initiatives at home and abroad
• Alternative Scandinavian internationalisms within transnational networks independently or in coordination with the publicly sponsored varieties

Workshop 3: Scandinavian Internationalists: Transnational Biographical Entry Points January 2021, University of Oslo (exact dates to TBD)

Organizers: Sunniva Engh and Niels Brimnes

As an approach, the biography has the strength that it can link the individual to broader structural developments. The protagonist both provides “valuable sensors for general trends and changes in society” and serves a privileged, specific and manageable point of entry to large and complex processes. For the biography to work as a sensory tool for the genealogy of Scandinavian internationalist diplomacy, it needs to be fundamentally transnational in scope. A transnational gaze allows us to explore their productive role at the nexus of new modes of global governance, rapidly professionalizing foreign service, and increasingly internationally organized non-state actors. In particular, the workshop takes interest in individuals that operated across the traditional state/non-state division and seeks to understand how they negotiated and were shaped by tensions between the agendas of state and non-state actors. Another strength of the biographical approach is that by tracing specific lives and careers the historian often transcends, bridges and challenges taken for granted historical periodisations. Thus, a concrete aim of the workshop is to compare and connect narratives of various prominent Scandinavian protagonists that had their formative experiences in the interwar period and would continue their internationalist endeavours into the post-war years. By tying together these biographies, we are able to get at the role played by the first generations of 20th century internationalist diplomats, and how the ‘capital’ accumulated in the interwar years translated into post-war currency. The workshop welcomes papers on issues such as:

• How Scandinavian internationalist figures contributed to and / or capitalized on specific visions of Scandinavia as societies that were socially just and peaceful
• How Scandinavian internationalists negotiated tensions between the agendas of state and non-state actors
• ‘Forgotten’ Scandinavian internationalist from non-State actors such as activist NGOs
• Papers that address methodological issues in writing biographies on internationalist protagonists
• Papers that address the role of professional networks in furthering international engagement

Important dates:
Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2020.
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2020.
Deadline for full papers: two weeks prior to the relevant workshop.

Practical information:

The organisers will cover travel expenses, meals and accommodation during the workshops.

For general enquiries, please contact Haakon A. Ikonomou: ikonomou@hum.ku.dk

20 May 2019

1 February 2019

Call for Participants: unconventional diplomacy panels at BIHG

New Diplomatic History themed panels at the British International History Group (BIHG) conference, Lancaster University (UK), 5-7 September 2019

Dear colleagues,

We are looking to put together two linked panels of three speakers each for the BIHG conference in 2019. We would like to see New Diplomatic History ideas and approaches well represented at this conference.

We therefore invite participants to join our two panels, both of which will be on the theme of ‘unconventional diplomacy’. We are open to very broad interpretations of this theme, including but not limited to:

• Official/state-sponsored diplomats acting in unconventional roles or using unconventional methods (broadly defined)
• Official state representatives outside the ‘normal’ diplomatic fraternity (e.g. spies as diplomats)
• Non-state actors in a diplomatic role
• The activities of retired diplomats

The BIHG conference details can be found at:

https://www.bihg.ac.uk/Portals/83/BIHG_2019_poster.pdf

We are looking for up to six panellists working on ‘unconventional diplomacy’ across any time period and are keen to involve a broad range of approaches, geographies and periods. We welcome participation by postgraduate and early career researchers as well as more established scholars.

If you are interested, please send a 250 word abstract and brief biography (around 150 words) to both:

Alexander Shaw – hy11ans@leeds.ac.uk

Giles Scott-Smith – g.scott-smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Deadline for application: 18 February 2019

(in order to ensure we can compose the panels in time for submission to the BIHG deadline on 1 March).

6 November 2018

The Affective Glue of European Integration: The role of transnational political, religious, and economic networks and their shared emotional vocabulary in shaping European integration (1930-’57)

Utrecht University 8-9 April 2019

How have transnational networks shaped the start-up of European integration (1930-1957) and how did they develop and make use of a shared emotional vocabulary to articulate their ambitions, dreams, longings, and dreads in this respect?

While there have been numerous accounts of the early years of European integration emphasizing the importance of economic and (geo-)political interests, the emotional dimension in the history of European integration has often been overlooked.

Research on the role of emotions in international relations has shown that emotions both inform the perception of interests and ideas, and are actively used to mobilize or constrain support for certain political ideas. Moreover, emotions are important to understand the interactions among policy-making elites. For example, a shared emotive vocabulary facilitates political negotiations, and political ideas that are tied to dominant “emotion norms” (i.e. affective glue) can be expected to be more successful.

Since the early years of European integration were characterized by an initial rather “open” competition among alternative blueprints of a future European order, it is of critical importance to examine the way in which both backward-looking emotions based on experiences (such as trust and hate) and forward-looking emotions underpinning expectations (such as hope and fear), shaped both the substantive ideas of those blueprints as well as the interaction among policymaking elites.

Transnational networks, overlapping in political, economic and religious make-up, and in intra-European and trans-Atlantic geographical spheres, were the key fora that enabled competing ideas and emotions to be articulated, shaped, and developed. Hence, these transnational networks may tell us in what ways fear, hope and (dis)trust informed the European integration process. How were emotional beliefs tied to a specific religious vocabulary, such as reconciliation, solidarity, and responsibility, mobilized to gain support for particular blueprints of Europe?

In light of the accumulated attention for emotions and transnational networks among historians and international relations scholars, this workshop aims to bring together researchers working on the “affective glue” of European integration in its early years, from the 1930s until the launch of the European Economic Community (1957).

We welcome papers that address the following topics:

• The role of individual key actors in the articulation or political translation of blueprints and their transnational relations with other players in the field;

• The role and interaction of specific hubs and groups (political, economic, ecumenical) in shaping the start-up of European integration (circle of friends, group of civil servants, diplomats, entrepreneurs, etc.);

• The development of and contestation over central emotional beliefs concerning blueprints of Europe, both over time and at critical junctures (genealogy of ‘hope’, ‘solidarity’, ‘responsible society’, etc.);

• Theoretical approaches on the role of emotions and emotional beliefs in understanding the history of European integration.

As part of this workshop we will study the options for a special issue/edited volume. The workshop takes place at Utrecht University on 8 & 9 April 2019. Travel (within Europe) and accommodation will be provided for paper-givers.

• Deadline abstract (300-500 words) & short biography: 11 January 2019. Abstracts should be sent to Dr Trineke Palm at t.p.palm@uu.nl. We will inform applicants by 31 January 2019.

• Deadline full paper (8.000-10.000 words): 29 March 2019.

23 July 2018

Exposing Secrets: The Past, Present and Future of U.S. National Security Whistleblowing and Government Secrecy

An Interdisciplinary Conference involving Scholars, Journalists, Whistleblowers, and Advocates

17-18 January 2019

New York University London Campus, 6 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London, UK

Keynote Speakers include
Ewan MacAskill: Pulitzer Prize-winning defence and intelligence correspondent for The Guardian
John Kiriakou: Former CIA-analyst and case officer who was prosecuted after exposing torture

Edward Snowden and National Security Agency mass surveillance; Reality Winner and Russian interference in U.S. elections; James Comey and Donald Trump’s obstruction of justice. National security whistleblowing continues to shape history and stir controversy in and beyond the U.S. Drawing on political, legal, journalistic and cultural perspectives, this international, public conference will explore among other topics:

● The contested definition of whistleblowing versus “leaking” and “unauthorized disclosure”
● The relationship between whistleblowers and journalists
● Whistleblowing and the evolution of information: “big data”
● The legality of whistleblowing and the challenges of advocacy
● Whistleblowers in popular culture
● State deterrence of whistleblowing: old and new mechanisms
● Whistleblowing as a transnational phenomenon
● Publishers: From traditional media to WikiLeaks

We welcome individual submissions, as well as proposed panels and roundtables. Please send a 500-word abstract and brief 1-2 page bio/cv to whistleblowingconference@gmail.com by 15 September 2018.

Kaeten Mistry (University of East Anglia)
Hannah Gurman (New York University)
For more see: https://wp.nyu.edu/whistleblowing

12 June 2018

Call for Papers: Culture & International History VI: Visions of Humanity

 6 – 8 May 2019 in Berlin

 John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin

The conference Culture and International History VI will take place from the 6^th through the 8^th of May, 2019 in Berlin. Siep Stuurman (Universiteit Utrecht), author of The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History (Harvard UP, 2017), will deliver the keynote speech. The conference marks the 20^th anniversary of the symposium cycle that began in 1999 and has since taken place in Wittenberg, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Berlin. Key themes and contributions have been published in Berghahn Books’ series Explorations in Culture and International History (Oxford, New York, since 2003).

“Visions of Humanity” seeks to address the growing interest in historical ideas, statements, policies and actions invoking transnational, international and global audiences in the name of common values, rights and concerns. These may be manifest in activism relating to human rights, policies invoking humanitarian action, cultural output imagining trans-border societies, ideas wedding technology and the human, international protest against mechanisms of marginalization, cross-cultural canon-building (“the humanities”) and attempts to define “humanity” in academic disciplines. International history is full of people and organizations invoking visions of humanity in an effort to create common notions of identity (“we”) based on international and global reference points. But who constituted “we”? What made “us” similar? Who was part of humanity, who wasn’t? What were the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in humanity? And who defined and contested these criteria and decisions?

The symposium will focus on visions of humanity as they crystallize in the history of diplomatic and informal fora as well as in the context of specific debates. Specifically, the conference seeks to compare 20^th century approaches in North American and transatlantic history to other regions and earlier periods. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• The human rights diplomacy of indigenous people
• Arts, international relations and visions of humanity
• Humanity and the humanities in international exchange
• The concept of humanity in diplomatic and legal parlance
• Minority rights vs. universal rights in international history
• Cultural diplomacy in the name of human rights & humanitarian action

We invite students and scholars of International History, Modern History, Area Studies, Theater Studies, Cultural Studies, Musicology, Art History, Psychology, Social Science, Anthropology and related fields to submit proposals before July 8, 2018. Young scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. Proposals should include 1. a brief cover letter, 2. the title of the paper and an abstract of max. 500 words, 3. a one-page CV. All three should be submitted in one pdf file. Proposals for panels will also be considered (chair/commentator, three panelists). Pending approval, individual speakers may apply for funds covering the cost of travel and accommodation and should mention this in their application. Participants who have an interest in the topic and would like to attend the conference without delivering a paper are welcome and should contact Verena Specht.

Please submit proposals and questions to: verena.specht@fu-berlin.de

Jessica Gienow-Hecht

Sebastian Jobs

Sönke Kunkel

9 January 2018

CFP: Bridging Divides: Third Conference of the New Diplomatic History Network

24-26 October 2018

Roosevelt Institute for American Studies

Middelburg

The Netherlands

www.roosevelt.nl

Keynotes:

Naoko Shimazu (Yale-NUS College Singapore)

John Watkins (University of Minnesota)

The New Diplomatic History network focuses broadly on the historical study of diplomats, their methods, and their cultural, political and social milieux. New diplomatic history involves the study of individuals and groups who perform diplomatic roles (but who have so far often been ignored), and the use of perspectives and methodologies from across the social sciences to bring their significance into focus. The network reasserts diplomatic actors as important subjects of historical study while being open to innovations in the understanding of evolving international society.

In the context of globalization, diplomacy has become a complex field of activity involving a host of state and non-state actors in multiple levels and forms of global, regional, and local governance. While the nation-state continues to function as the cornerstone of international order, an increasingly crowded environment has forced adaptations and alterations to all levels of diplomatic practice. Diplomatic studies has duly followed these developments, broadening its scope of attention and theoretical approach in the process.

Yet is this expansion of the diplomatic field only confined to the recent era of globalization? Has diplomacy not always involved a range of actors and interests, even during the heyday of statist diplomacy in recent centuries? Was the state-led modern era unique in the long history of diplomatic practice? How have institutional frameworks altered the poise of diplomacy over time? What are the precedents for the condition of diplomacy in the early 21^st century?

As the main meeting point for the New Diplomatic History network, this conference aims to bring together scholars working on diplomacy from different historical periods and from different disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. It intends to link the study of diplomacy across the early modern, modern and post-modern eras, and test the application of investigative concepts across space and time, inviting comparisons across both geographical regions and historical periods.

All proposals exploring the study of diplomacy from theoretical, emotional, sensory, artistic, spatial and temporal perspectives are welcome. Please send a draft title and 500-word (max.) synopsis to NewDH3@gmail.com

Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2018

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20 November 2017

CFP: Global Diplomacy: A Post-Institutional Approach

Basel/Bern 30 August — 1 September 2018

This conference aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on the transformation of modern diplomacy from an instrument of arcane foreign policy to an intermediary between foreign policy and transnational and transboundary networks. As mentioned in recent research debates (e.g. Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy 2013), the merging of diplomacy, global governance, international relations and international law stands at the core of a paradigmatic shift which overcomes institutional limitations by specifying collaborative activities and multifunctional actors in international politics on a global scale. The conference addresses the theoretical and methodological challenges which result from the tensions between an institutional understanding of foreign relations as activities of a sovereign state and the obvious impact of informal activities shaping politics and public spheres as ‹civil diplomacy› not investigated so far. The conference has a strong interest in methodological debates, asking to what extent the history of institutions is useful for documenting the limits of normative orders and rules. Following this perspective, the Swiss case might offer a starting point for similar cases where global expertise oversteps formal limitations in international politics.

Panel I: Networking on Diplomatic and Consular Levels: Western strategies for Asia 1860s to 1945

(Semi-)colonial settings, concession areas and extraterritorial spaces allow studying the interferences between territory-based governance and the regional impact of various global actors on different regions and international societies. Blurring the apparent difference between East and West, Asia presents an interesting opportunity to investigate the dynamic development of multilayered spaces from the 1860s onwards. The main questions addressed are: How did formal colonial powers as well as states profiting from most-favored nation clauses organize their system of representation in different Asian areas? How and to what extent were non-state actors, e.g. merchants as honorary consuls, as well as professional state actors involved in these diplomatic processes? And to what extent did local intermediaries use, transform and profit from extraterritorial claims? Starting with (but overstepping) the Swiss case as an example for the inclusion of non-state actors and for network-based diplomacy in Asia, the panel aims at developing a sense of converging and diverging diplomatic structures, processes and strategies of different Western states.

Panel II: Entitlements, Practices and Governance on a Global Level

The second panel focuses on the variety of global diplomacy’s actors. The increasing range of thematic issues seems to be a huge challenge for foreign ministries and international organizations. The main questions are: Who is entitled to act on behalf of a state? What is the personal background, the training and education of diplomatic personnel around the globe or the staff working for international organizations? To what extent do foreign ministries guide and control diplomatic relations? And what is the impact of experts and non-state actors with view to the complexity of diplomacy?

Panel III: Neutrals and Neutral States as Global Actors – Motivations, Perceptions, and Economic Interests

Besides considering more actors in international politics, a post-institutional understanding of diplomacy challenges established norms and concepts. Acting as intermediaries in times of war, neutral states offer an opportunity to investigate multifunctional activities, including the question of profits and losses resulting from negotiations on behalf of warring states. In addition, the panel will focus on the interactions between neutrals, including tensions between different understandings of neutrality as an under-investigated perspective in research. As a third aspect, the debate addresses humanitarian interventions from non-state actors, which, in recent debates, are considered as important intermediaries in non-violent interventions. However, beyond the case of ICRC, their activities and practices are less known in historical research, especially when it comes to their activities in the Pacific War. As a forth perspective, the panel addresses the question of who is acting from a neutral position or one perceived as such. Including Jewish organizations active during World War II, the debate compares status and scope of action of neutral non-state actors with regard to enemy aliens and allies on a global scale.

Panel IV: Digital Humanities in the Study of Global Diplomacy

With a new understanding of diplomacy as a field connecting different actors across borders, historiography oversteps the limits of diplomatic source material. The panel will test methodological approaches which are suitable for actor-network analysis and database focused research. To what extent has the digital accessibility of diplomatic documents transformed methodologies and fields of interest in diplomatic history? With JACAR and Dodis as main tools, this panel will take databases into account that allow following diplomatic career patterns, the geographical extension of diplomatic representation and the close entanglement of global trade with diplomatic representation. Besides the presentation of newly developed digital tools with the Asia Directories database among others, the panel will on one hand address the methodological challenges of making available diplomatic connections on a global scale. On the other hand, historians working within digital humanities projects will discuss the opportunities of hyperconvergent infrastructure and ways to share source material.

Panel V: Diplomacy, Transnational Law and Global Studies (interdisciplinary panel)

This concluding panel encompasses the methodological and theoretical framing of new actors in international relations and their problem-solving capacity. With a special focus on refugees and stateless persons, it sheds light on the merging of diplomacy, global governance, international relations and international law. The handling of these two groups of actors shows the limits of traditional foreign and international relations and in doing so, paves the way for an interdisciplinary debate on global governance.

The conference aims to bring together historians as well as researchers from the social sciences and related disciplines with an interest in the history of diplomacy, transnational law and global governance. A common goal is to challenge the former Eurocentric and state-focused diplomatic history in favor of a global history of diplomacy which takes into account border-crossing entanglements and transnational networks.

We invite PhD students, postdocs and senior academics to apply and want to encourage women researchers to send their proposals in order to reach a gender-balanced representation at the conference. Please send your proposal for a paper including information about the applicant (max. 3’000 characters, preferred file format: PDF) to Thomas Bürgisser (thomas.bürgisser@dodis.ch) until January 15th, 2018. All proposals will undergo a peer review process. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by May 2018. For more information, see: https://swiss-diplo.ch/konferenz/

Scientific Committee

Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch (Instiute for European Global Studies University of Basel)
Prof. Dr. Toshiki Mogami (Waseda University, Tokyo)
Prof. Dr. Atsushi Shibasaki (Komazawa University, Tokyo)
Prof. Dr. Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney)
Dr. Sacha Zala (Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland / University of Bern)

Organizing Committee

Dr. Thomas Bürgisser
Cornelia Knab
Dominik Matter
Julian Wettengel

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25 October 2017

CFP: New Public Diplomacy

The third issue of the Revista Chilena de Relaciones Internacionales will be completely dedicated to the New Public Diplomacy. Researchers from the areas of International Relations, International Studies, History, and Political Science are welcome to submit their original research articles, or reviews of academic texts, related to the proposed topic.

Since the rise of the New Public Diplomacy, in contraposition to the Traditional Public Diplomacy that sees directs relations only between states, academy has seen the emergence of a wider dimension in the international relations among states. This way, the incorporation of new actors in the world arena makes it unavoidable to ask about the course that the diplomatic technique has adopted, as well as the consequences of the new angles detected.

Academic literature available on the also called “Kinds of Diplomacy” are usually scarce in Spanish because most of the them have been analyzed and developed in Europe and North America. This issue seeks to expand the debate around very current topics such as business sport, digital, cultural, gastronomic, scientific, religious, ethnic, military, environmental, educational, humanitarian, citizen, celebrity, or sub-state diplomacies, among many others.

Research articles covering some of those topics, its roots, objectives, perspective, challenges, and opportunities will be accepted considering the new tendencies of the political communication, the different national interests, and the particular openness, transparency, and active participation that the citizens all over the world demand in all the governmental aspects, including Foreign Policy.

Abstracts’ submission date is inevitably due on December 10th, 2017; any document in a language other than Spanish, English, or Portuguese will not be considered. The complete article due date will be February 2nd, 2018, and the publication of the issue will be March 30th, 2018. Documents must be sent to contacto@rchri.cl cc merlandsen@ug.uchile.cl in format .doc, .docx or .pdf. For further information about the authors’ guidelines, please see https://rchri.cl/convocatoria/

Revista Chilena de Relaciones Internacionales ensures a process of peer review complying with the academic standards of blind review, without any discrimination regarding gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, nationality, or political ideology of the authors.

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12 October 2017

CFP- Negotiating Networks: new research on networks in social and economic history

One day conference – 25th June 2018

Institute of Historical Research, University of London

Keynote: Sheryllynne Haggerty, University of Nottingham

This conference will bring together scholars working on networks in social and economic history, broadly defined, with a particular focus on those using Social Network Analysis (SNA) in their research. SNA has become increasingly popular as one of the key digital tools for historical research in recent years. We would like to encourage conversation and exchange of ideas between researchers who use this methodology.

We welcome proposals for papers from postgraduate, early career and established scholars working in this area. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers dealing with the challenges and rewards of examining historical networks.  We therefore encourage papers dealing with the medieval, early modern or modern periods and any geographical location. Papers which take a methodological approach to historical SNA are also welcome.

Possible themes include, but are not limited to:

Economic networks: business, trade and material culture

Religious and cultural networks: networks of minorities and marginalised groups, confessional networks

Interactions between networks and other themes in socio-economic history e.g. migration, institutions

Methodological issues in historical SNA

Please send abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute papers to Esther Lewis and Charlie Berry at negotiatingnetworks@gmail.com by 30th January 2018. We hope to offer bursaries for attendance for speakers and travel for postgraduate and ECR attendees.

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10 October 2017

CFP: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the Challenge of a New World Order

International Conference to be held in Paris, 5-8 June 2019

Under the aegis of the Institut historique allemand (IHA)/Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris (DHIP), LABEX EHNE, Commission d’histoire des relations internationales/Commission for the History of International Relations

The Peace Conference held in Paris in the aftermath of the Great War remains among the most important yet also most controversial events in modern history.  Although it is often considered to have made a second global war all but inevitable, it has also been praised for providing the basis for an enduring peace that was squandered recklessly by poor international leadership during the 1930s.

A major international conference will take place in Paris in June 2019 to commemorate the centenary of the 1919 Conference from a global perspective. The purpose of this event is to re-examine the history of the Peace Conference through a thematic focus on the different approaches to order in world politics in the aftermath of the First World War. A remarkably wide range of actors in Paris – from political leaders, soldiers and diplomats to colonial nationalist envoys and trade unionists, economists, women’s associations and ordinary citizens – produced a wide array of proposals for a future international and, indeed, global order. These proposals were often based on vastly different understandings of world politics. They went beyond the articulation of specific national security interests to make claims about the construction and maintenance of peace and the need for new norms and new institutions to achieve this aim. To what extent the treaties and their subsequent implementation represented a coherent order remains a question of debate.

By ‘order’, we mean in the first instance, the articulation and development of systematic ideas, institutions and practices aimed at promoting a durable peace that would deliver security, economic recovery and social justice. This distinguishes thinking about ‘order’ from discussions of ‘national interests’ – though there was of course overlap between these two modes of thinking about future international relations. Second, we are interested in ‘order’ as an analytical concept in its own right. This encourages historians to identify, as Paul Schroeder has urged, the shared rules, assumptions, and understandings about a particular set of political relations and to show how specific decisions reflect the norms of the order.

Emphasising the preoccupation of peace-makers with the problem of world order broadens the scope of the familiar questions and debates that have dominated the literature on the Peace Conference.  It also opens the way for posing new questions and for thinking about more familiar questions in new ways. We therefore invite papers addressing the following questions:

1. What were the different conceptions of political, economic and social order advocated at the Paris Conference? What was the relationship between different ideas about the international order, such as a system based on national self-determination and one based on the rule of law? Were there broad over-arching conceptions of an international order, such as liberal or socialist internationalism, that could accommodate more narrowly focused ideas such as free trade or labour rights? How did people conceive of the relationships between self-interest and order? What role did power politics play in conceptions of international order? Were the absentees from Paris – notably the Germans and the Bolsheviks – able to shape the debate about the emerging international order?
2. What were the origins of these different ideas about order? Why was there such an interest in the systematic development of particular orders both during and after the war? Who produced ideas about order, and why? What was in particular the role of NGOs and ordinary citizens? Can an approach based on different ‘generations’ of international actors illuminate this problem in new ways? Was the idea of ‘order’ a reaction to international politics before and during the war? Or did it represent a continuity with certain strands of thinking about international politics that pre-dated the outbreak of war in 1914? What was the relationship between the articulation of war aims and ideas about post-war order?
3. To what extent did contending visions of an international order shape the peace treaties? Did the organization and proceedings of the Conference reflect tensions between the national, the regional and the global? What was the role of regional orders in shaping broader conceptions of a new world order? To what extent did discourses concerning new regional orders reflect fundamental changes in the conceptualization of world politics? To what extent were they a repackaging of the more familiar themes of empire or spheres of influence?
4. How were the peace treaties legitimated to domestic and international audiences? Were subsequent negotiations on the implementation and revision of the peace treaties shaped by the profound debates about international politics that took place before and during the Peace Conference? Were conceptions of international order systematically subordinated to concerns about national security? Conversely, to what extent can it be argued that the Paris Peace Conference produced or contributed to a disorder in European politics that led ultimately to the Second World War?
5. What was the impact of the Paris Peace Conference on views of world order based on gender, class and race? How did women, workers and colonial subjects respond to the peace conference and what was its impact on the emergence of alternative voices in international affairs? Whose voices were heard at Paris in 1919 and whose remained silent or were silenced?
6. What political and diplomatic practices were implied in these various conceptions of international order?  To what extent did these practices shape the course of international relations after 1919?  Did the intellectual debate and political experience of the Paris Peace Conference play a role in shaping a future generation of leaders (such as Jean Monnet and John Foster Dulles)?

Paper proposals

The Conference organizers aim to ensure the conference provides a global perspective on the Paris Peace Conference. We are therefore particularly keen to receive proposals from scholars working on topics pertaining to the non-western world. The organisers anticipate securing limited financial resources to support delegates’ participation in the conference.

The conference languages will be English and French

Regardless of language, all proposals will receive serious consideration.

The deadline for paper proposals is:  1 June 2018

Please send your proposal (abstract in English or French of no more than 500 words) and short CV to Axel Dröber:  ADroeber@dhi-paris.fr.

Conference Steering Group:

Laurence Badel (Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Eckart Conze (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

Jean-Michel Guieu (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Norman Ingram (Concordia University)

Peter Jackson (University of Glasgow)

Stefan Martens (Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris)

Matthias Schulz (Université de Genève)

William Mulligan (University College Dublin)

Comité scientifique:

Andrew Barros (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Carl Bouchard (Université de Montréal)

Eric Bussière (LABEX EHNE)

Michael Clinton (Gwynedd Mercy University)

Olivier Compagnon (Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht)

Vincent Dujardin (Université catholique de Louvain)

Olivier Forcade (Université de Paris -Sorbonne)

Erik Goldstein (University of Boston)

Talbot Imlay (Université Laval)

Stanislas Jeannesson (Université de Nantes)

John Keiger (University of Cambridge)

William Keylor  (University of Boston)

Antoine Marès (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Holger Nehring (University of Stirling)

Jennifer Siegel (The Ohio State University)

Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney)

Georges-Henri Soutou (Institut de France)

Christian Tams (University of Glasgow)

Hugues Tertrais (Commission of History of international relations-ICHS)  

Martin Thomas (University of Exeter)

Antonio Varsori  (University of Padua)

Hirotaka Watanabe (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Xu Guoqi  (University of Hong Kong)