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Secret Diplomacy - Concepts, Contexts and Cases (Paperback)
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Secret Diplomacy - Concepts, Contexts and Cases (Paperback)
Series: Routledge New Diplomacy Studies
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This volume investigates secret diplomacy with the aim of
understanding its role in shaping foreign policy. Recent events,
including covert intelligence gathering operations, accusations of
spying, and the leaking of sensitive government documents, have
demonstrated that secrecy endures as a crucial, yet overlooked,
aspect of international diplomacy. The book brings together
different research programmes and views on secret diplomacy and
integrates them into a coherent analytical framework, thereby
filling an important gap in the literature. The aim is to
stimulate, generate and direct the further development of
theoretical understandings of secret diplomacy by highlighting
'gaps' in existing bodies of knowledge. To this end, the volume is
structured around three distinct themes: concepts, contexts and
cases. The first section elaborates on the different meanings and
manifestations of the concept; the second part examines basic
contexts that underpin the practice of secret diplomacy; while the
third section presents a series of empirical cases of particular
relevance for contemporary diplomatic practice. While the
fundamental conditions diplomacy seeks to overcome - alienation,
estrangement and separation - are imbued with distrust and secrecy,
this volume highlights that, if anything, secret diplomacy is a
vital, if misunderstood and unfairly criticised, aspect of
diplomacy. This book will be of much interest to students of
diplomacy, intelligence studies, foreign policy and IR in general.
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