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Book SynopsisThe Commentaries is the first complete English language translation, with complete annotations, of a unique and extraordinary memoir from the pen of the erudite Spanish soldier-diplomat D. García de Silva y Figueroa over the course of his embassy to Persia (1614–1624). The Commentaries transcend the travel-literature genre, emerging as a precocious European intellectual global history that is remarkable for its encyclopedic breadth, its historical depth, and its ethnographic and even artistic sensitivity. The Commentaries will be of interest to historians, ethnographers, and literary critics, or anyone with an interest in early modern European accounts of the encounter between the Portuguese and Spanish Empires and Safavid Persia during the early modern period.Trade Review"...Turley and Souza’s English edition of the Commentaries — a key source to understand Safavid–Iberian relations in the early 1600s, as well as early modern travel writing and cross-cultural contacts — is an excellent one and the two editors are to be commended for an impressive achievement." - Jorge Flores, European University Institute, Florence, in: Journal of Early Modern History, 22:1-3 (2018) "Overall, this painstaking edition of Silva y Figueroa’s mission to Persia is about as good as it gets in terms of editing a text and while the Commentaries are not particularly groundbreaking in what they reveal, readers of this journal will find this a fascinating source of material regarding voyages not mentioned in Boxer’s admittedly very general study of Portugal’s Seaborne Empire, and more broadly regarding oceanic travel a hundred years after da Gama first demonstrated the viability of the maritime route from Europe to India via the Cape [...]" - Christopher Storrs, in: The International Journal of Maritime History, 30:3 (2018), pp. 592-594 "To be sure, this is a fascinating account and the Herculean task of making it available to the Englishspeaking world was clearly a labour of love." - Andrew J. Newman, in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1:2 (2018) [DOI: 10.1017/S1356186318000482] “Es esta obra monumental el volumen 26 de la colección European Expansion and Indigenous Response dirigida por el profesor George Bryan Souza de la Universidad de Texas, San Antonio. Su realización ha exigido la colaboración de un especialista en filología románica (Jeffrey S. Turley) y de un historiador de la expansión europea en Asia (George Bryan Souza), además del apoyo varias instituciones, del asesoramiento de un número crecido de eruditos y de la colaboración de expertos en la confección de mapas, según se hace constar en los Acknowlegments. Conscientes ambos autores de que los Comentarios de Silva y Figueroa son uno de los más importantes libros de viajes europeos a Persia, aunque no hayan alcanzado la fama de los de Adam Olearius y Jean Chardin pese a contar con la traducción francesa de Abraham de Wicquefort de 1667, se propusieron ofrecer por primera vez la traducción anotada de los mismos en lengua inglesa a los desconocedores del español, confiados en que su trabajo sería ampliamente utilizado por los historiadores y etnógrafos de Asia, y por los interesados en las relaciones de los imperios portugués y español con la Persia Safávida. Concebido el proyecto a fines de los setenta del siglo pasado, los autores se repartieron el trabajo de la siguiente manera: Turley haría la traducción inglesa, y Souza prepararía el índice, las ilustraciones, mapas y glosarios. Ambos colaborarían en la edición, traducción y redacción de la introducción y las notas. La sinergia ha resultado tan perfecta que, salvo en los comentarios estrictamente lingüísticos (italianismos, latinismos, portuguesismos), se hace difícil averiguar la respectiva contribución de ambos autores.” – Luis Gil Fernandez, in: Anuario de Estudios Americanos, 75:1 "Como “pionero” en sentirme atraído por D. García de Silva y Figueroa, quisiera expresar a Jeffrey S. Turley y George Bryan Souza, a más de mi felicitación por su espléndido trabajo,[...]y mi gratitud por haber dado a conocer al amplio mundo de lengua inglesa una obra de la categoría de los Comentarios y una personalidad tan interesante como la de su autor".Luis Gil Fernandez, in Erytheia,2021.Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s Preface Acknowledgments List of Tables, Maps, and Plates Measurements Monies Abbreviations Introduction The Commentaries of D. García de Silva y Figueroa on his Embassy to Shah ʿAbbās I of Persia on behalf of Philip III, king of Spain Book I [The Voyage to India April–November 1614] Book II Description of the Island and City of Goa Book III [Goa to Hormuz 21 March–12 October 1617] Book IV [Journey to Qazvīn and Meeting with Shah, 12 October 1617–1618] Book V [Report on the Regions of the Persian Empire] Book VI [Long-delayed Meetings with Shah ʿAbbās I in Eṣfahān and Return to Goa, 27 July 1618–15 December 1620] Book VII [First Attempt to Return to Spain and Forced Return from Mozambique to Goa. Account of Loss of Qeshm and Hormuz. D. García de Silva y Figueroa’s Final Departure from Goa. 19 December 1620–28 April 1624] Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy: A Subtle Game of Diplomatic Slap, Alisher Faizullaev describes how states and their representatives may use manipulative practices for influencing the opponent. The author distinguishes three forms of using symbolic insult in diplomacy: by misrecognition (“diplomatic bypassing”), direct confrontation (“diplomatic punch”), and concealed verbal or nonverbal actions (“diplomatic slap”). The book focuses on “diplomatic slap” – employing obscure symbolic insult as a means of tacit manipulation. Analyzing historical and modern cases, Alisher Faizullaev shows that implicit symbolic insult usually appears ambiguously, and allows the offender to stay engaged with the victim. This work reveals vailed aspects of diplomatic practices and represents a valuable source for students and practitioners of international politics and diplomacy.Table of ContentsSymbolic Insult in Diplomacy: A Subtle Game of Diplomatic Slap  Alisher Faizullaev  Abstract  Keywords  Introduction: The Puzzle of Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy  Diplomatic Actors: Self and Other  Diplomatic Actor’s Sense of Self and Ontological Security  Three Types of Insult in Diplomacy  Diplomatic Imperatives and Symbolic Insult  Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy as a Manipulative Practice  Symbolic Insult in Digital Diplomacy  The Range and Level of Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy  Tacit Bargaining and Symbolic Insult  Face Diplomacy and Symbolic Insult  Handshake Diplomacy and Symbolic Insult  Conclusion  References

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Book SynopsisIn The Ideas and Practices of the European Union’s Structural Antidiplomacy, Steffen Bay Rasmussen offers a comprehensive analysis of EU diplomacy that goes beyond the functioning of the European External Action Service and discusses the sui generis nature of the EU as a diplomatic actor, the forms of bilateral and multilateral representation as well as the actor identity, founding ideas and meta-practices of EU diplomacy. The book employs a novel theoretical approach that distinguishes the social structures of diplomacy from the practices and meta-practices of diplomacy. Comparing EU diplomacy to the two theoretically constructed ideal types of Westphalian diplomacy and utopian antidiplomacy, Steffen Bay Rasmussen concludes that the EU’s international agency constitutes a new form of diplomacy called structural antidiplomacy.Trade Review"In short, it is a methodologically comprehensive, up-to-date and a very well founded book, considering that it is an issue covering a myriad of processes. However, the author effectively deals with most of these impediments." - Roberto Duran, Catholic University of Chile, in: Diplomatica 1 (2019)Table of Contents1 Introduction: The European Union and the Contemporary Transformation of Diplomacy  1.1 The European Union as a Case of Special Interest  1.2 Research Design  1.3 The Organisation of the Book 2 Conceptual Framework: Diplomacy, Alienation and Ideal Types  2.1 Towards a Contingent Notion of Diplomacy   2.1.1 The English School   2.1.2 The Limitations of Doctrinal Approaches   2.1.3 Alienation and Diplomacy   2.1.4 A Contingent Definition of Diplomacy  2.2 A Social Constructivist Ontology of Diplomacy   2.2.1 Social Structures   2.2.2 The Role of Diplomacy in the International System   2.2.3 Conceptualising the Diplomacy of Individual Actors   2.2.4 Diplomacy as a Structured Discursive Totality   2.2.5 Layers of Diplomacy  2.3 Westphalian Diplomacy: An Ideal Type   2.3.1 Westphalian Diplomatic Identities, Ideas and Meta-practices   2.3.2 Westphalian Diplomatic Practice  2.4 Antidiplomacy: An Ideal Type   2.4.1 Antidiplomatic Identities, Ideas and Meta-practices   2.4.2 Antidiplomatic Practices  2.5 Ideal Types and the Analysis of the Social Structure, Practices and Meta-practices of EU Diplomacy 3 The Organisation of the EU as a Diplomatic Actor  3.1 The Historical Evolution of the EU as a Diplomatic Actor  3.2 The Internal Setup of the EU as a Diplomatic Actor after Lisbon   3.2.1 The European Council and Its Permanent President   3.2.2 The Council of the European Union   3.2.3 The Commission and The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the Commission   3.2.4 The European External Action Service  3.3 Division of Labour in Brussels and the Challenge of Coherence  3.4 Conclusion: A Complex Network Organisation 4 The EU in Bilateral Diplomatic Relations  4.1 The EU as Receiver of Diplomatic Mission  4.2 The Permanent Representation of the EU in Third States   4.2.1 The EU Delegations   4.2.2 The Role of the Diplomatic Missions of the Member States  4.3 EU Special Representatives  4.4 Coordination in the Network of EU Diplomatic Representations  4.5 Conclusion 5 The Participation of the EU in International Organisations  5.1 The Participation of the EU in International Organisations: General Aspects  5.2 The United Nations   5.2.1 The status of the European Union   5.2.2 Practices of Representation   5.2.3 Practices of Coordination   5.2.4 The UN Security Council   5.2.5 The FAO  5.3 The World Trade Organization   5.3.1 Status of the EU   5.3.2 Forms of Representation   5.3.3 Coordination Practices  5.4 The International Monetary Fund   5.4.1 Status of the EU   5.4.2 Forms of Representation   5.4.3 Coordination Practices  5.5 The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (osce)   5.5.1 Status of the EU   5.5.2 Forms of Representation   5.5.3 Coordination Practices  5.6 Conclusion 6 EU Diplomatic Meta-Practices: Institutionalisation, Legalisation and Regionalisation  6.1 Evolution of the EU’s International Legal Personality and Its Competences to Conclude International Agreements  6.2 EU Agreements: General Aspects   6.2.1 Cooperation Agreements   6.2.2 Association Agreements   6.2.3 Technical and Partial Agreements  6.3 EU Regionalism: The Structure of the EU’s Relationships with Other Regions   6.3.1 Africa and the acp States   6.3.2 Asia   6.3.3 Latin America   6.3.4 The European Economic Area   6.3.5 The European Neighbourhood Policy  6.4 Conclusion: EU Diplomatic Meta-practices between Transformative Effects and Isomorphic Pressures on the EU to Adapt 7 Social Structures of EU Diplomacy  7.1 The International Identity of the European Union a Diplomatic Actor   7.1.1 The Dominant Antidiplomatic EU Identity   7.1.2 The Minority Construction of EU Diplomatic Identity Based on the Westphalian Ideal Type  7.2 The Causal Ideas in EU Diplomacy  7.3 Strategic Objectives of EU Diplomacy  7.4 Conclusion 8 Conclusions and Perspectives  8.1 Main Characteristics of European Union Diplomacy   8.1.1 EU Diplomatic Practices   8.1.2 EU Diplomatic Meta-practices: Institutionalisation, Legalisation and Regionalisation   8.1.3 The Antidiplomatic Social Structures of EU Diplomacy  8.2 What Diplomatic Theory Reveals about the EU: The Structural Antidiplomacy of the European Union as an Inherently Unstable Construction between the Ideal Types of Westphalia and Utopian Antidiplomacy  8.3 What the EU Case Reveals about Diplomacy: Ideal Types and the Pluralisation of Diplomacy   8.3.1 The Case of EU Diplomacy and the Construction of a Typology of Diplomacies   8.3.2 The Systemic Impact of the EU’s Structural Antidiplomacy Annex 1: Ideal Type Social Structures of Diplomacy Annex 2: Ideal Type Diplomatic Meta-practices Annex 3: Ideal Type Diplomatic Practices Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Friends of ACUNS Biennial Book Award Group Politics in UN Multilateralism provides a new perspective on diplomacy and negotiations at the United Nations. Very few states ‘act individually’ at the UN; instead they often work within groups such as the Africa Group, the European Union or the Arab League. States use groups to put forward principled positions in an attempt to influence a wider audience and thus legitimize desired outcomes. Yet the volume also shows that groups are not static: new groups emerge in multilateral negotiations on issues such as climate, security and human rights. At any given moment, UN multilateralism is shaped by long-standing group dynamics as well as shifting, ad-hoc groupings. These intergroup dynamics are key to understanding diplomatic practice at the UN.Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1: Introduction to Group Politics 1 Introduction: Group Politics in UN Multilateralism  Katie Verlin Laatikainen and Karen E. Smith 2 Group Politics at the UN: Conceptual Considerations  Katie Verlin Laatikainen Part 2: Regional and Political Groups in UN Diplomacy 3 The European Union  Karen E. Smith 4 Latin American Cooperation at the United Nations: Exploring the Role of GRULAC, CARICOM and ALBA  Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann 5 The African Union in the United Nations  Nandi Makubalo, Madeleine O. Hosli, and Michaël Lantmeeters 6 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League  Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués 7 ASEAN as an Actor in the United Nations: How Cohesive Is It?  Jürgen Rüland 8 The Alliance of Small Island States at the UN: the Promise and Pitfalls of Single-Issue Groups in Multilateral Negotiations  Katie Laatikainen Part 3: Group Politics in UN Multilateral Diplomacy 9 Gender Equality and Sexual Orientation Discrimination  Karen E. Smith 10 Group Dynamics and Interplay in UN Disarmament Forums  Megan Dee 11 Negotiating the Responsibility to Protect in the UN System  Alex Bellamy 12 Discussing Global Health and Access to Medicines in the UN System: the Case of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)  Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann and Jana Tabak 13 Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals  Mary Farrell 14 Group Interaction in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change  Lisanne Groen 15 Group Politics and the Question of Palestinian Recognition in the UN System  Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués 16 Conclusion: “The Only Sin at the UN is Being Isolated”  Katie Verlin Laatikainen and Karen E. Smith Index

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Book SynopsisMamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. This rich volume covers the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the various areas of the diplomatic relations established by (or with) the Mamluk sultanate. Twenty-six essays are divided in geographical sections that broadly respect the political division of the world as the Mamluk chancery perceived it. In addition, two introductory essays provide the present stage of research in the fields of, respectively, diplomatics and diplomacy. With contributions by Frédéric Bauden, Lotfi Ben Miled, Michele Bernardini, Bárbara Boloix Gallardo, Anne F. Broadbridge, Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, Stephan Conermann, Nicholas Coureas, Malika Dekkiche, Rémi Dewière, Kristof D’hulster, Marie Favereau, Gladys Frantz-Murphy, Yehoshua Frenkel, Hend Gilli-Elewy, Ludvik Kalus, Anna Kollatz, Julien Loiseau, Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, John L. Meloy, Pierre Moukarzel, Lucian Reinfandt, Alessandro Rizzo, Éric Vallet, Valentina Vezzoli and Patrick Wing.Trade Review"In addition to the focus on diplomacy, this volume offers a wealth of material on society, religion, and politics and on the range of government officials, soldiers, scholars, and merchants during the Mamluk era. These contributions provide an important resource for anyone interested in the broad historical reach of the Mamluks." - Daniel Varisco in Journal of the American Oriental Society 141.1 (2021).Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Charts, Figures, and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Mamluk Diplomatics: the Present State of Research  Frédéric Bauden 2 Mamluk Diplomacy: the Present State of Research  Malika Dekkiche Part 1 Diplomatic Conventions 3 Diplomatics, or Another Way to See the World  Malika Dekkiche 4 Strong Letters at the Mamluk Court  Lucian Reinfandt 5 Embassies and Ambassadors in Mamluk Cairo  Yehoshua Frenkel Part 2 The Mongols and Their Successors 6 Careers in Diplomacy among Mamluks and Mongols, 658–741/1260–1341  Anne F. Broadbridge 7 The Golden Horde and the Mamluks: the Birth of a Diplomatic Set-Up (660–5/1261–7)  Marie Favereau 8 Mamluk-Ilkhanid Diplomatic Contacts: Negotiations or Posturing?  Reuven Amitai 9 Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: Emissaries to the Mamluks as Expressions of Local Political Ambitions and Ideologies during the Seventh/Thirteenth and Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries  Hend Gilli-Elewy 10 Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Sulṭān Aḥmad Jalāyir’s Time as a Refugee in the Mamluk Sultanate  Patrick Wing Part 3 The Timurids, the Turkmens, and the Ottomans 11 Niẓām al-Dīn Shāmī’s Description of the Syrian Campaign of Tīmūr  Michele Bernardini 12 Diplomatic Entanglements between Tabriz, Cairo, and Herat: a Reconstructed Qara Qoyunlu Letter Datable to 818/1415  Frédéric Bauden 13 Fixed Rules to a Changing Game? Sultan Meḥmed II’s Realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk Diplomatic Conventions  Kristof D’hulster Part 4 The Western Islamic Lands 14 Diplomatic Correspondence between Nasrid Granada and Mamluk Cairo: the Last Hope for al-Andalus  Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo 15 Entre Ifrīqiya hafside et Égypte mamelouke: Des relations anciennes, continues et consolidées  Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi 16 Tracking Down the Hafsid Diplomatic Missions All the Way to the Turco-Mamluk Borders (892–6/1487–91)  Lotfi Ben Miled Part 5 Arabia, India, and Africa 17 Diplomatic Networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to Early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries)  Éric Vallet 18 “Aggression in the Best of Lands”: Mecca in Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century  John L. Meloy 19 Some Remarks on the Diplomatic Relations between Cairo, Delhi/Dawlatābād, and Aḥmadābād during the Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries  Stephan Conermann and Anna Kollatz 20 The Ḥaṭī and the Sultan: Letters and Embassies from Abyssinia to the Mamluk Court  Julien Loiseau 21 “Peace Be upon Those Who Follow the Right Way”: Diplomatic Practices between Mamluk Cairo and the Borno Sultanate at the End of the Eighth/Fourteenth Century  Rémi Dewière Part 6 The Latin West 22 The European Embassies to the Court of the Mamluk Sultans in Cairo  Pierre Moukarzel 23 In the Name of the Minorities: Lisbon’s Muslims as Emissaries from the King of Portugal to the Sultan of Egypt  Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros 24 Envoys between Lusignan Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt, 838–78/1435–73: the Accounts of Pero Tafur, George Boustronios and Ibn Taghrī Birdī  Nicholas Coureas 25 Negotiating the Last Mamluk-Venetian Commercial Decree (922–3/1516–7): Commercial Liability from the Sixth/Twelfth to the Early Tenth/Sixteenth Century  Gladys Frantz-Murphy 26 Three Mamluk Letters Concerning the Florentine Trade in Egypt and Syria: a New Interpretation  Alessandro Rizzo Part 7 Material Culture 27 Écritoires: objets fonctionnels et symboliques indissociables des cérémonies officielles à l’ époque mamelouke  Ludvik Kalus 28 Precious Objects for Eminent Guests: the Use of Chinese Ceramics in Mamluk Cairo: the Fustat Ceramic Collection from The Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels)  Valentina Vezzoli Indexes

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Book SynopsisIn Lobbying in Company, Joris van den Tol argues that people made a difference in the Dutch West India Company colony in Brazil (1630–1654). Through a combination of petitions, personal relations, and public opinion, individuals were able to exercise influence on the decision-making process regarding Dutch Brazil. His thorough analysis of these different elements offers a new perspective on the Atlantic and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century as well as a better understanding of lobbying in the early modern period.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Graphs and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 Lobbying for the Creation of the WIC 1 The Dutch Republic  1.1 The Cities  1.2 Provincial States  1.3 States General  1.4 The Stadtholders  1.5 Conflicting Powersbr/> 2 The West India Company  2.1 Willem Usselincx  2.2 The Layout of the WIC 3 Brazil 4 Conclusion 2 Lobbying in Brazil 1 1624/1630–1636: Ad Hoc Solutions 2 1637–1646: Consolidation and a Prince in the Tropics  2.1 The Diet as a Colonial Tool  2.2 The Brazilian Diet of 1640  2.3 The 81 Petitions of August 1640  2.4 Petitions for Regulations 3 Religious Affairs  3.1 The Power of the Church 4 Slavery  4.1 Access to Institutions for Non-European 5 The Possible Consequence of Top-Down Decision Making  5.1 Johan Maurits’ Reaction  5.2 The Reactions from the Council of Justice and the Ministers 6 Conclusion 3 Trading Regulations or Free Trade 1 The Opening Moves 2 Selecting the Playing Field 3 Making It Count 4 Making It Count Even More 5 The Role of the Amsterdam City Council 6 Delaying a Decision 7 Lobbying to and from the Colony 8 Conclusion 4 Petitioning the Public Sphere 1 What Is the Public Sphere? 2 The Dutch Public Sphere  2.1 Pamphlets and Dutch Brazil 3 Petitions and Public Opinion  3.1 Printed Petitions 4 Multiple Signatures on Petitions  4.1 Group Petitions to the States General 5 Managing Information of the Revolt in Brazil 6 Petitioning the Public Sphere on Brazil 7 Petitioning the Public Sphere on the Atlantic  7.1 Other Forms of Signatures 8 Conclusion 5 Personal Connections and Direct Lobbying 1 Personal Connections and Societal Capital 2 Appointing a New High Government in Brazil 3 Background Issues  3.1 Peace Negotiations in Münster  3.2 A Frisian Chamber in the WIC 4 Information Control 5 Personal Relations 6 Conclusion 6 The Last Hope, 1652–1654 1 The Second Battle of Guarapes 2 Why Was Brazil Lost? 3 The Delegates from Brazil 4 Requesting a Resolution from the States General 5 A Delegation to Friesland  5.1 The Report from the Friesland Commission 6 Accelerating the Admiralties 7 Seizing Momentum 8 Planning for the Future 9 It Is All about the Money  9.1 It Is about the People 10 The Loss of Brazil 11 Conclusion 7 Lobbying for Money in the Aftermath of Dutch Brazil 1 Return to the Republic 2 Claiming Wages 3 Travel Pennies 4 Shared Features 5 The Printed Petition from the Army 6 Conclusion 8 Making the Company Work Appendix A – Free Trade Exports from Brazil in 1637 Manuscript Sources Secondary Literature and Published Sources Index

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Book SynopsisScholars are seeking to identify how to constructively integrate faith into diplomacy. Proponents of faith-based diplomacy recognise that incorporating faith into peacemaking activities assists in managing identity-based conflict and religiously motivated violence in the contemporary international system. A promising strategy within the scope of faith-based diplomacy is interfaith dialogue. The study and practice of interfaith dialogue has been reinvigorated since the advent of 9/11, and yet the link between interfaith dialogue and diplomacy remains underdeveloped. The cases of Indonesia and the United States present lessons on how states can effectively use interfaith dialogue to achieve policy objectives, while recognising that some policies are detrimental to achieving diplomatic goals. This paper seeks to provide some framework for bringing interfaith dialogue into the scope of diplomacy by illuminating how faith-based diplomacy and interfaith dialogue can be innovative diplomatic perspectives useful in addressing contemporary global issues.Table of ContentsFaith-based Diplomacy and Interfaith Dialogue  Scott Blakemore  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Faith-based Diplomacy  3 Interfaith Dialogue  4 Interfaith Dialogue: the Indonesian Expereince  5 Interfaith Dialogue: the American Expereince  6 Conclusions  List of References

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Book SynopsisThis book is a much-needed update on our understanding of public diplomacy. It intends to stimulate new thinking on what is one of the most remarkable recent developments in diplomatic practice that has challenged practitioners as much as scholars. Thought-leaders and up-and-coming authors in Debating Public Diplomacy agree that official efforts to create and maintain relationships with publics in other societies encounter unprecedented and often unexpected difficulties. Resurgent geo-strategic rivalry and technological change affecting state-society relations are among the factors complicating international relationships in a much more citizen-centric world. This book discusses today’s most pressing public diplomacy challenges, including recent sharp power campaigns, the rise of populism, the politicization of diaspora relations, deep-rooted nation-state-based perspectives on culture, and public diplomacy’s contribution to counterterrorism. With influential academic voices exploring policy implications for tomorrow, this collection of essays is also forward-looking by examining unfolding trends in public diplomacy strategies and practices. Originally published as Volume 14, Nos. 1-2 (2019) pp. 1-197 in Brill’s journal The Hague Journal of Diplomacy.

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Book SynopsisToday’s analysts of world affairs are often loosely referring to ‘geopolitics’, but do not always clearly define it. This book therefore offers a necessary introduction into the main components of geopolitical analysis, an overview of the main geopolitical schools of thought, as well as reflections on technology and geopolitics. In addition, empirical studies showcase innovative approaches.Table of ContentsBackground and acknowledgements  David Criekemans List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Need for a Renewed ‘Grounding’ of International Relations  David Criekemans PART 1: Basic Variables of Geopolitical Analysis 1 The Main Components of Geopolitical Analysis  Gyula Csurgai 2 ‘Geotechnical Ensembles’: How New Technologies Change Geopolitical Factors and Contexts in Economy, Energy and Security  David Criekemans PART 2: Theoretical Approaches to Territorially Embedded Factors and IR 3 Geopolitical Schools of Thought: A Concise Overview from 1890 till 2020, and beyond  David Criekemans 4 Where 'Geopolitics' and 'Foreign Policy Analysis' Once Met: The Work of Harold and Margaret Sprout and Its Continued Relevance Today  David Criekemans 5 Analysing Geopolitical Myths: Towards a Method for Analytic Geopolitics  Antonios Nestoras PART 3: Empirical Studies: The Enduring Relevance of Territorially Embedded Factors in IR 6 Post-Cold War NATO Enlargement and the Geopolitical Instrumentalization of ‘Liberal Peace’: Lessons from George Kennan  Alexandre Lambert 7 The Increasing Importance of Geoeconomics in Power Rivalries: From the Past to the Present  Gyula Csurgai 8 Dangers on the Edge of the Map: Geographic Mental Maps and the Emergence of the Carter Doctrine  Luis da Vinha 9 Mapping Greed as a Conflict Motivation: Evidence from Armed Conflicts in Sudan and Libya on the Complexity of Armed Groups’ Interactions with Natural Resources  Steven Spittaels 10 Regional Diplomacy: Re-Territorialisation as a Piece in the Neo-Medieval Puzzle?  Manuel Duran PART 4: Conclusions Geopolitics and International Relations: From ‘Living Apart Together’ to ‘Friends with Benefits’  David Criekemans Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to explore the rich festival culture of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France as a tool for diplomacy. Bram van Leuveren examines how the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of the kingdom made conscious use of festivals to advance their diplomatic interests in a war-torn Europe and how diplomatic stakeholders from across the continent participated in and responded to the theatrical and ceremonial events that featured at these festivals. Analysing a large body of multilingual eyewitness and commemorative accounts, as well as visual and material objects, Van Leuveren argues that French festival culture operated as a contested site where the diplomatic concerns of stakeholders from various national, religious, and social backgrounds fought for recognition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations Preliminary Notes Introduction  1 Diplomatic Practices  2 Topic and Terminology  3 State of the Field  4 Methodology and Historical Sources  5 Outline of Chapters 1 Unhappy Products of Unhappy Times: European Thought on Diplomacy and Festival Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  1 Introduction  2 The Humanist Roots of Diplomacy and Festival Culture  3 Practices of Negotiation  4 Practices of Hospitality  5 Practices of Publicisation  6 Conclusion 2 Cross-Confessional Diplomacy: The Parisian Court Festivals of Summer 1572  1 Introduction  2 Diplomatic Context  3 The Ratification Ceremony for the Treaty of Blois, 15 June 1572  4 Banquets and Theatrical Entertainments, 13–20 June 1572  5 The Nuptial Ceremony for the Valois-Navarre Festival, 18 August 1572  6 A Royal Dinner and Theatrical Entertainments, 18–21 August 1572  7 Conclusion 3 Diplomatic (In)Hospitality: Henri III’s Controversial Reception of Dutch Rebels, Winter 1585  1 Introduction  2 Diplomatic Context  3 Travelling to Paris, January–February 1585  4 Reception at Court, February–March 1585  5 Conclusion 4 Public and Back-Channel Diplomacy: Broadcasting Reconciliation at the Time of the Edict of Nantes and the Peace of Vervins, 1598–1600  1 Introduction  2 Diplomatic Context  3 Receiving Catholic and Protestant Allies, Spring 1598  4 Staging Reconciliation, Winter 1600  5 Conclusion 5 Contesting Diplomacies: Continuity and Audience Control at Two Royal Marriages, 1612–1615  1 Introduction  2 Diplomatic Context  3 Winning Support for the Franco-Spanish Double Marriage in Paris, 1612  4 Celebrating the Anglo–German Wedding in London, 1613  5 Celebrating the Franco–Spanish Double Marriage in Paris, 1615  6 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCet ouvrage décrit la politique africaine du Maroc sous le règne de Mohammed VI, et démontre comment la construction d’une identité de role autour de la notion de “juste milieu” affecte les representations du Royaume de son environnement international. This book describes Morocco's African policy under the reign of Mohammed VI, and demonstrates how the construction of a role identity around the notion of "golden mean" affects the Kingdom's representations of its international environment.Table of ContentsPréface Sigles et acronymes Introduction  1 « Le Maroc prend le Sud » : élan apollinien ou dionysien ?  2 Monde arabe et monde africain dans l’étude des relations internationales  3 Une approche constructiviste de l'identité  4 Le défi de la multidisciplinarité dans l’étude de la politique étrangère du Maroc  5 Objectifs et plan de l’ouvrage 1 Genèse d’une politique africaine au Maroc : le Royaume à la quête de reconnaissance internationale  1 Introduction  2 Mesurer l’émergence du Maroc à l’aune du nouvel ordre mondial : l’émergence de l’Afrique dans un monde « multiplex »  3 De l’ambition de l’émergence à l’ambition de la puissance : le développement des relations internationales du Royaume  4 La construction discursive de l’identité de rôle internationale du Maroc autour de la notion de « juste milieu »  5 L’Afrique comme « nouvelle frontière » 2 Les déterminants historiques de l’orientation africaine de la diplomatie  1 Introduction  2 L’histoire comme déterminant objectif de l’ordre géopolitique. Le projet du « Grand Maroc » d’Allal El Fassi  3 Premiers pas vers la construction du multilatéralisme africain  4 De la Guerre des sables à la trahison de l’OUA : le Sahara occidental marocain, un problème africain  5 La recherche de leadership au sein d’une union régionale avec la Libye : une alternative échouée  6 Le Royaume de la Guerre froide face à la puissance française en Afrique  7 « Partenariat rénové » et nouvelle politique en Afrique à la fin de la Guerre froide  8 Cessez-le-feu et plan de paix au lendemain de la Guerre froide : la naissance de la diplomatie des voix 3 La fabrique de la politique africaine : prééminence royale et mobilisation diplomatique  1 Introduction  2 Le style du Roi dans la politique étrangère : un rôle à deux niveaux  3 Les Affaires étrangères : un « Ministère de Souveraineté »  4 Modernisation et professionnalisation de l’appareil diplomatique au service d’une stratégie africaine  5 La spécialisation de la diplomatie au service d’une identité de rôle du « juste milieu » : la promotion de l’inter-culturalisme et du trilatéralisme 4 Cadre de représentation d’une intégration régionale  1 Introduction  2 La défense de l’intégrité territoriale : cadre politique de la définition de l’entourage  3 L’Algérie et le Front Polisario : hostis historiques publics  4 L’Afrique du Sud et le Nigéria : adversaires géopolitiques ou futurs alliés continentaux ?  5 Perceptions partagées d’un axe anti-marocain Alger-Abuja-Pretoria  6 La représentation d’un « prolongement naturel » fondée sur les « constantes historiques » du Royaume  7 Du caractère français de la politique africaine du Royaume : l’hypothèse erronée d’un pré-carré gigogne  8 Du caractère marocain de la politique africaine du Royaume : « Mohammed VI l’Africain », manifestation du style royal en Afrique 5 Cadre de légitimation d’une intégration régionale  1 Le royaume est africain : l’inscription de l’africanité dans le cadre diplomatique  2 Le royaume est solidaire : l’intégration du cadre normatif de la coopération Sud-Sud et de la sécurité globale  3 Le royaume est modéré : la valorisation d’un legs politico-religieux par la définition d’un islam du « juste milieu » 6 L’Afrique comme terrain d’expression d’une stratégie indirecte  1 Introduction  2 Quinze ans de bilatéralisme offensif au service d’une sectorisation de la coopération  3 L’acquisition de moyens matériels par la coopération trilatérale  4 Contourner l’absence de l’UA par une diplomatie multilatérale parallèle  5 Le retour du Maroc au sein de l’UA : fin de la stratégie indirecte ? 7 Composer les leviers d’action diplomatiques pour promouvoir une identité de rôle  1 La subordination de l’outil économique aux impératifs politiques  2 Politiques d’investissements sectoriels sous la bannière de la coopération Sud-Sud  3 La promotion de l’identité de l’État par le nation branding et le capital immatériel  4 Accélérer les échanges pour réaliser l’intégration régionale : la course aux transports maritimes  5 Diplomatie d’influence : le rôle des leviers culturel et religieux  6 L’institutionnalisation des échanges avec les réseaux confrériques soufis transsahariens  7 La diffusion d’un islam du « juste milieu » en Afrique par la formation religieuse 8 Les conséquences de la politique africaine du Maroc : entre gains relatifs et transformations géopolitiques  1 Introduction  2 Les effets de la diplomatie culturelle et religieuse dans le développement de la migration vers le Maroc  3 Vers un mix des politiques étrangère et intérieure : l’exemple de la politique climatique et environnementale  4 Entériner la fin d’un clivage MENA – Subsaharan Africa : un projet régionaliste socialement construit Conclusion: Le Maroc, une puissance médiane Annexes 1 Les visites d’État de Mohammed VI à l’étranger 2000-2016 (tableau) 1 bis Les visites d’État de Mohammed VI à l’étranger 2000-2016 (carte) 2 Les discours du Roi : statistiques 3 Les IDE à destination du Maroc (1) 3 bis Les IDE à destination du Maroc (2) 4 Carte du « Grand Maroc » 5 Pays qui ont retiré leur reconnaissance de la RASD 5 bis Carte des postures diplomatiques concernant le statut du Sahara occidental marocain 6 Exportation de matériels de guerre français au Maroc (2008-2014) 7 Les IDE marocains en Afrique (1) 8 Cadre de légitimation de la politique africaine. Exemple de document relatif à la coopération Sud-Sud 9 La nouvelle route qui relie le Maroc à l’Afrique de l’Ouest 10 Les IDE marocains en Afrique (2) 11 UA : Motion de 28 États pour la suspension de la RASD 12 Les échanges commerciaux avec l’Afrique 13 Réseaux de transport en Afrique 14 Lignes maritimes Maroc – Afrique Bibliographie 316  1 Sources académiques générales  2 Sources académiques sur le Maroc et l’Afrique  3 Sources non académiques  4 Sources primaires  5 Sitographie Index

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Book SynopsisCommissioned by the Qianlong emperor in 1751, the Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples (Huang Qing zhigong tu 皇清職貢圖), is a captivating work of art and an ideological statement of universal rule best understood as a cultural cartography of empire. This translation of the ethnographic texts accompanied by a full-color reproduction of Xie Sui’s (謝遂) hand-painted scroll helps us to understand the conceptualization of imperial tributary relationships the work embodies as rooted in both dynastic history and the specifics of Qing rule.

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Book SynopsisMinistries of foreign affairs are prominent institutions at the heart of state diplomacy. Although they have lost their monopoly on the making of national foreign policies, they still are the operators of key practices associated with diplomacy: communication, representation and negotiation. Often studied in a monographic way, ministries of foreign affairs are undergoing an adaptation of their practices that require a global approach. This book fills a gap in the literature by approaching ministries of foreign affairs in a comparative and comprehensive way. The best international specialists in the field provide methodological and theoretical insights into how best to study institutions that remain crucial for the world diplomacy. Contributors are: Thierry Balzacq, Guillaume Beaud, Gabriel Castillo, Andrew Cooper, Rhys Crilley, Jason Dittmer, Mikael Ekman, Bruno Figueroa, Karla Gobo, Minda Holm, Marcus Holmes, Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, Nikolaj Juncher Waedegaard, Casper Klynge, Halvard Leira, Christian Lequesne, Ilan Manor, Jan Melissen, Iver B. Neumann, Birgitta Niklasson, Kim B. Olsen, Pierre-Bruno Ruffini, Claudia Santos, Jorge A. Schiavon, Damien Spry, Kamna Tiwary, Geoffrey Wiseman, and Reuben Wong.Table of ContentsList of Contributors 1 Ministries of Foreign Affairs: A Crucial Institution to be Revisited  Christian Lequesne Part 1: Recruitment and Career 2 The Social Origin of Career Diplomats in Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Still an Upper-Class Elite?  Karla Gobo and Claudia Santos 3 The Gendered Networking of Diplomats  Birgitta Niklasson 4 Ethnic Diversity in the Recruitment of Diplomats: Why MFA s Take the Issue Seriously  Christian Lequesne, Gabriel Castillo, Minda Holm, Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, Halvard Leira, Kamna Tiwary and Reuben Wong 5 The Making of a Diplomatic Elite in a Revolutionary State: Loyalty, Expertise and Representativeness in Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs  Guillaume Beaud Part 2: Diplomacy and Politics 6 Expertise and Politics in Ministries of Foreign Affairs: The Politician-Diplomat Nexus  Geoffrey Wiseman 7 The Impact of Leader-Centric Populism on Career Diplomats: Tests of Loyalty, Voice, and Exit in Ministries of Foreign Affairs  Andrew F. Cooper 8 The Impact of Globalisation and Neoliberal Structural Reforms on the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs  Jorge A. Schiavon and Bruno Figueroa Part 3: New Policy Practices 9 Implementing the EU’s Russia Sanctions: A Geoeconomic Test Case for French and German Ministries of Foreign Affairs  Kim B. Olsen 10 Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Challenge of Science Diplomacy  Pierre-Bruno Ruffini 11 Consular Diplomacy in the Era of Growing Mobility  Jan Melissen 12 Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Lessons from Denmark’s TechPlomacy Initiative  Casper Klynge, Mikael Ekman and Nikolaj Juncher Waedegaard 13 The Mediatisation of Ministries of Foreign Affairs: Diplomacy in the New Media Ecology  Ilan Manor and Rhys Crilley 14 From Delhi to Dili: Facebook Diplomacy by Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the Asia-Pacific  Damien Spry Part 4: Researching and Theorising mfa s 15 Approaching Ministries of Foreign Affairs through Ethnographic Work  Iver B. Neumann 16 Diplomacy in the Rearview Mirror: Implications of Face-to-Face Diplomacy Ritual Disruption for Ministries of Foreign Affairs  Marcus Holmes 17 Distributed Agency: Foreign Policy sans MFA  Jason Dittmer 18 The Site of Foreign Policy: A Field Theory Account of Ministries of Foreign Affairs  Thierry Balzacq Index

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Book SynopsisConsidering the important impact of Asian cultures on international relations, we conducted a multifaceted analysis and authentic summary of the Asian experiences and patterns of dealing with foreign relations from an Asian insider’s perspective, aiming to find out where the diverging or converging diplomatic ways of the West and the East came from and what the positive diplomatic values and practices originated from Asian traditions are. Focusing on China, volume one thoroughly analyses the nature, political culture and mechanism of the tribute system from ancient time to the modern era within and beyond China. Volume two studies the culture and diplomacy of various individual Asian nations except for China, both in general and in particular cases, with an interdisciplinary approach. 考慮到亞洲文化對國際關係之影響的特殊重要性, 我們從一個亞洲局内人的角度, 對亞洲處理對外關係的經歷和模式進行了多方面的分析和真實可信的總結, 以發現在哪裏東西方的外交方式出現了分歧或聚合, 以及什麽是源於亞洲傳統的具有積極意義之外交價值觀. 卷一集中于中國, 徹底分析了朝貢體系的本質, 政治文化及其從古至近代以及在中國境外的延申和演變. 卷二以跨學科的方式, 探討了除中國以外亞洲各國不同的文化和外交, 既有綜合分析, 也有個案研究.Table of ContentsContents Notes on Contributors Introduction: Asian Experiences Seen from Asian Perspectives  C. X. George Wei Part 1: The Tribute System within the Domestic Context: Essence, Paradigm and Variables 1 The Suzerain-Vassal System as East Asian Security System and Structure: Its Origin, Essence, Evolution and Features  C. X. George Wei and Zhijiang Wei 2 Bridle and Tame: The Evolution of the Tributary System of Ancient China’s Borderland Minorities – Centered on the Borderland Minorities of Northeast China  Cheng Nina Part 2: The Tribute System within the Global Context: Conflict, Transition and Transplantation 3 The Fundamental Features of the Tribute System during the Song Dynasty  Huang Chunyan 4 The Chinese Rites Controversy: The Whole Story of the Kangxi’s Envoy Joseph-Antoine Provana’s Mission to Rome  Tang Kaijian 5 New Light on the Asian Tribute Trade and the Tokugawa Invention of a Japan-Centered International Order  Geoffrey C. Gunn Part 3: From the Tribute System to Modern Diplomacy: Challenge, Transformation and Adaptation 6 From the Bridle Doctrine to Treaty Diplomacy  Li Yuming 7 The “Two Paralleled Systems” of the Joseon Dynasty in the Nineteenth Century: The Cultural and Diplomatic Background  Quan Hexiu 8 The “New Opium War” of Republican China under the League of Nations: Distrust and Contention between the Chinese Government and the League  Li Jing and C. X. George Wei Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisNo studies currently exist on consuls and consulates (often dismissed as lowly figures in the diplomatic process) in the Cold War. Research into the work of these overlooked 'poor relations' offers the chance of new perspectives in the field of Cold War studies, exploring their role in representing their country’s interests in far flung and unexpected places and their support for particular communities of fellow nationals and itinerant travellers in difficulties. These unnoticed actors on the international stage played far more complicated roles than one generally imagines. . Contributors are: Tina Tamman, David Schriffl, Ariane Knuesel , Lori Maguire, Laurent Cesari, Sue Onslow, Pedro Aires Oliveira, David Lee, and Marek Hańderek.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Sue Onslow and Lori Maguire 1 Consuls and Their Near Cousins  Sue Onslow and Lori Maguire PART 1: Europe 2 The Accidental Consul: August Torma in Charge of Estonian Consular Affairs in London  Tina Tamman 3 The Austrian Consulate General in Bratislava during the Cold War  David Schriffl 4 “The Tea Merchant Has Returned”: The Intelligence Activities of the Chinese Consulate-General in Geneva  Ariane Knüsel 5 The North Vietnamese Trade Delegation in Paris: A Little-Known Actor in the Vietnam Conflict  Lori Maguire PART 2: East and South Asia 6 Business as (Almost) Usual: The French Consulate General in Saigon during the Break of Diplomatic Relations Between France and the Republic of Vietnam, 1965–1973  Laurent Cesari 7 Our Man in Maymyo: British Consuls in Upper Burma, 1948–1956  Sue Onslow 8 Portuguese Consuls and Diplomats and the Coming of the People’s Republic of China, c.1945–1950  Pedro Aires Oliveira 9 Australia’s Window to China in the Cold War: The Trade Commission in Hong Kong  David Lee 10 The Polish Consulate in Shanghai: Its Official and Unofficial Role, 1954–1989  Marek Hańderek 11 Conclusion  Lori Maguire and Sue Onslow Index

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Book SynopsisToday’s analysts of world affairs are often loosely referring to ‘geopolitics’, but do not always clearly define it. This book therefore offers a necessary introduction into the main components of geopolitical analysis, an overview of the main geopolitical schools of thought, as well as reflections on technology and geopolitics. In addition, empirical studies showcase innovative approaches.Table of ContentsBackground and acknowledgements  David Criekemans List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Need for a Renewed ‘Grounding’ of International Relations  David Criekemans PART 1: Basic Variables of Geopolitical Analysis 1 The Main Components of Geopolitical Analysis  Gyula Csurgai 2 ‘Geotechnical Ensembles’: How New Technologies Change Geopolitical Factors and Contexts in Economy, Energy and Security  David Criekemans PART 2: Theoretical Approaches to Territorially Embedded Factors and IR 3 Geopolitical Schools of Thought: A Concise Overview from 1890 till 2020, and beyond  David Criekemans 4 Where 'Geopolitics' and 'Foreign Policy Analysis' Once Met: The Work of Harold and Margaret Sprout and Its Continued Relevance Today  David Criekemans 5 Analysing Geopolitical Myths: Towards a Method for Analytic Geopolitics  Antonios Nestoras PART 3: Empirical Studies: The Enduring Relevance of Territorially Embedded Factors in IR 6 Post-Cold War NATO Enlargement and the Geopolitical Instrumentalization of ‘Liberal Peace’: Lessons from George Kennan  Alexandre Lambert 7 The Increasing Importance of Geoeconomics in Power Rivalries: From the Past to the Present  Gyula Csurgai 8 Dangers on the Edge of the Map: Geographic Mental Maps and the Emergence of the Carter Doctrine  Luis da Vinha 9 Mapping Greed as a Conflict Motivation: Evidence from Armed Conflicts in Sudan and Libya on the Complexity of Armed Groups’ Interactions with Natural Resources  Steven Spittaels 10 Regional Diplomacy: Re-Territorialisation as a Piece in the Neo-Medieval Puzzle?  Manuel Duran PART 4: Conclusions Geopolitics and International Relations: From ‘Living Apart Together’ to ‘Friends with Benefits’  David Criekemans Index

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Book SynopsisChapter1- Introduction.-Section I:Indo-Pacific Strategies.-Chapter 2- America’s Role in the Indo-Pacific Region: Rebooting for New Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 3- India’s Indo-Pacific Outlook: Strategies and Challenges.- Chapter 4- Shared Values and FOIP: Tracing the Implications of Japan’s Value-Oriented Diplomacy for the Indo-Pacific Regional Order.- Chapter 5- Australia in the Indo-Pacific: Evolving Strategic Outlook amidst Shifting Geopolitics.- Chapter 6- China's Engagement in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Perceptions and Policy Responses.- Chapter 7- ASEAN and India in the Indo-Pacific: Convergence and Divergence Amidst Major Power Competition.- Chapter 8- The Revitalized European Union’s Strategy on the Indo Pacific: Shaping the future through strategic engagement.- Section 2: Issues and Challenges.- Chapter 9- Natural Disasters in the Indo-Pacific: Persistent Challenges and Prospects for Cooperation.- Chapter 10- Public Health Security in the Indo-Pacific: Challenges and Prospects.- Chapter 11- Ports, Power and Politics: Reworking a Critical Trifecta in the Indo-Pacific.-Chapter 12- Emerging Technologies and Geopolitical Challenges in the Indo-Pacific.- Chapter 13- Securitization and the Role of Quad in the Indo-Pacific: Tracing Origin, Evolution and the Way Forward.- Chapter 14- Emerging Challenges to Regional Connectivity and Infrastructure Building in the Indo-Pacific.- Section III  Critical Flashpoints.- Chapter 15- South Korea-North Korea Rising Tension and Implications for Regional Peace and Security.- Chapter 16- North Korean Challenge to US Extended Nuclear Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific.-Chapter 17- Taiwan Conundrum in Indo- Pacific: Implications for India- China- Taiwan Relations.

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