Just Greasing the Wheels? Mediating Difference or the Evasion of Power and Responsibility in Diplomacy
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Just Greasing the Wheels? Mediating Difference or the Evasion of Power and Responsibility in Diplomacy. / Adler-Nissen, Rebecca.
In: The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Vol. 10, No. 1, 5, 2015, p. 22-28.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Just Greasing the Wheels?
T2 - Mediating Difference or the Evasion of Power and Responsibility in Diplomacy
AU - Adler-Nissen, Rebecca
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - We traditionally see diplomats as mediators.They build bridges between nations and they repair them when they break. During a crisis, diplomats ‘keep it cool’ and try to prevent the crisis from worsening into armed conflict. Diplomats are the men and women who keep the international system running despite its fundamentally conflictual nature. At least, this is how diplomats have portrayed their profession for hundreds of years. However,the focus of this contribution is how diplomacy in general is seen as mediating among states, peoples and ideas — and why this is an incomplete view. This short contribution is therefore concerned with the way in which scholarly understandings of diplomacy as the mediation of estrangement raise — but also evade — questions of power and responsibility.
AB - We traditionally see diplomats as mediators.They build bridges between nations and they repair them when they break. During a crisis, diplomats ‘keep it cool’ and try to prevent the crisis from worsening into armed conflict. Diplomats are the men and women who keep the international system running despite its fundamentally conflictual nature. At least, this is how diplomats have portrayed their profession for hundreds of years. However,the focus of this contribution is how diplomacy in general is seen as mediating among states, peoples and ideas — and why this is an incomplete view. This short contribution is therefore concerned with the way in which scholarly understandings of diplomacy as the mediation of estrangement raise — but also evade — questions of power and responsibility.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Diplomacy
KW - Mediation
KW - Conflict
KW - IR theory
KW - diplomats
KW - International Relations
KW - power
KW - mediators
U2 - 10.1163/1871191X-12341303
DO - 10.1163/1871191X-12341303
M3 - Journal article
VL - 10
SP - 22
EP - 28
JO - The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
JF - The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
SN - 1871-1901
IS - 1
M1 - 5
ER -
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