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Diplomatic Material - Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
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Diplomatic Material - Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
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In Diplomatic Material Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive
reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex
interactions between people and things shape the decisions and
actions of diplomats and policymakers. Bringing new materialism to
bear on international relations, Dittmer focuses not on what the
state does in the world but on how the world operates within the
state through the circulation of humans and nonhuman objects. From
examining how paper storage needs impacted the design of the
British Foreign Office Building to discussing the 1953 NATO
decision to adopt the .30 caliber bullet as the standard rifle
ammunition, Dittmer highlights the contingency of human agency
within international relations. In Dittmer's model, which eschews
stasis, structural forces, and historical trends in favor of
dynamism and becoming, the international community is less a
coming-together of states than it is a convergence of media,
things, people, and practices. In this way, Dittmer locates power
in the unfolding of processes on the micro level, thereby
reconceptualizing our understandings of diplomacy and international
relations.
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