Journal

Diplomatica

Latest issue: Vol. 5, No. 1 (May 2023)

Table of Contents

Articles

Salla Turunen
“Have You Been Recruited Because You Are a Woman or Because You Are Good?” Gendered Humanitarian Diplomats at the United Nations

Ahmad Guliyev
“Giving What They Hold Dear”: Safavid Diplomatic Gifts to Venice

Kazuhiro Nose
The Cultural and Economic Diplomacy of an Emerging Trade Power: the European Community at the Osaka Expo, 1970

Itzel Toledo García
Women Diplomats during the Interwar Period: the Case of Palma Guillén

Pierre-Bruno Ruffini
Science Counselors of the European Union – a Case Study of Science Diplomacy

Forum: North-South Diplomacy

Jonathan Harris, Ruth Craggs, and Fiona McConnell
Understanding Diplomatic Training from the Global South: Transnational Networks and (Post)colonial Connections

Vineet Thakur
Casting and Casteing Indian Diplomacy

Adriana Erthal Abdenur
The Second Edition of the South Commission

Book Reviews

Megan Armknecht
Keith Hamilton, 2021. Servants of Diplomacy: A Domestic History of the Victorian Foreign Office

Samuel Coggeshall
Maximilian Drephal, 2019. Afghanistan and the Coloniality of Diplomacy: the British Legation in Kabul, 1922–1948

Alison R. Holmes
Iver B. Neumann, 2020. Diplomatic Tenses: A Social Evolutionary Perspective on Diplomacy

Karl W. Schweizer
Eugenio Cusumano and Christopher Kinsey (eds.), 2019. Diplomatic Security: A Comparative Analysis

Margot Tudor
Jens Steffek, 2021. International Organization as Technocratic Utopia

The Mattingly Prize

Books for Review


Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society addresses the broad range of work being done across the social sciences and the humanities that takes diplomacy as its focus of investigation. The journal explores and investigates diplomacy as an extension of social interests, forces, and environments. It is multidisciplinary, providing a space to unite perspectives from diplomatic history (humanities) and diplomatic studies (social sciences) in particular. It is interdisciplinary, expanding beyond its disciplinary foundation of history to enrich historical perspectives with innovative analyses from other disciplines. It seeks to broaden the study of diplomacy temporally, contributing to a re-appraisal of diplomacy across the modern and early modern eras and beyond, in this way bridging temporal divides and introducing debate between scholars of different periodizations. It is determinedly global in orientation, providing a space for inter-regional comparisons.

Diplomatica seeks to merge diplomatic history and diplomatic studies through three main approaches:

1. Habitat: Exploring the multiple identities, behaviors, rituals, and belief systems of diplomats and how they change according to time, place, and space;

2. Actors: Challenging the centrality of the nation-state as the principal actor framing an understanding of what diplomacy is by focusing equally on the role of non-state actors;

3. Disciplines: Introducing appropriate methodologies from the social sciences, such as prosopography, network analysis, gender studies, economics, geography, and communications, in order to broaden the analytical study of diplomatic habitats, actors, and interactions through time.

Broadly speaking, Diplomatica covers the study of diplomatic process more than the study of diplomatic product. It questions, investigates, and explores all aspects of the diplomatic world, from interactions between the professionally diplomatic and the non-diplomatic to the arrangement of summits and banquets, the architecture of ministries and residences, and the identities, roles, practices, and networks of envoys, policy entrepreneurs, salonnières, and all other private and quasi-private individuals who affect the course of diplomacy.

The journal welcomes submissions dealing with any period and locale from across the humanities and social sciences. Submissions should be standard article length (approximately 8,000 words including footnotes) and written for a general, scholarly audience.

For editorial queries and proposals, please contact the Diplomatica Editorial Office.
For book review queries, please contact the book review editor, Haakon Ikonomou.

The Mattingly Award

Brill, the editorial board of Diplomatica, and the New Diplomatic History Network are pleased to provide an annual award for excellence and originality in an essay on diplomatic society or culture, broadly defined. The Mattingly Award is named for the American historian, Garrett Mattingly (1900-62), an esteemed writer, scholar, and professor at Columbia University. Best known for his history of the Spanish Armada (1959), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and his biography of Catherine of Aragon (1941), Mattingly pioneered the study of diplomatic institutions, practices, norms, and personalities, notably in his classic history of early modern Europe, Renaissance Diplomacy (1955).

Editors-in-Chief

Giles Scott-Smith, Leiden University

Kenneth Weisbrode, Bilkent University

 

Book Review Editor

Haakon Ikonomou, University of Copenhagen

 

Editorial Board

Rebecca Adler-Nissen, University of Copenhagen

Cátia Antunes, Leiden University

Laurence Badel, University of Paris 1

Corneliu Bjola, University of Oxford

Alessandro Brogi, University of Arkansas

Costas Constantinou, University of Cyprus

Noe Cornago, University of the Basque Country

Maurits Ebben, Leiden University

Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Free University of Berlin

Petra Goedde, Temple University

Karen Gram-Skjoldager, University of Aarhus

Jan Hennings, Central European University

Isabella Lazzarini, University of Molise

Helen McCarthy, University of Cambridge

Tosh Minohara, Kobe University

Iver B. Neumann, Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Thomas Otte, University of East Anglia

Geoffrey Allen Pigman, University of Pretoria

Priscilla Roberts, City University of Macau

J. Simon Rofe, SOAS University of London

Jonathan Rosenberg, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Naoko Shimazu, Yale-NUS College Singapore

Tracey Sowerby, University of Oxford

Zara Steiner †, Fellow Emeritus of Murray-Edwards College, University of Cambridge

John Watkins, University of Minnesota

Ellen R. Welch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Christian Windler, University of Bern